This DHCP is too dynamic

[Tommy Moore]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:50:40PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> We used the adsl-setup script to configure the ppp0 device. During that
> process, she put in her username and password for the ISP, which is
> Earth Link, by the way. 
> 
> She definitely connects. She's successfully ssh'd to my system, and
> scp'd files from me. I managed to ssh over there once--but then the
> session went dead after about a minute.
> 
> So, I had her issue :
> 
> ifconfig ppp0 |grep inet
> 
> several times, about a minute apart. We had a different address every
> time.

Have her send you her /var/log/messages file.
The most likely thing that's occuring is that the pppd keeps disconnecting nad reconnecting.

Tommy