--- Uday Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings pluggers,
>
> So I got on the broadbandwagon. Running a Fedora
> Core 1 SOHO server for
> over an year. Never bothered to upgrade to FC2 or
> FC3. It aint broke
> yet.
>
> There are a few PCs behind this box on a private LAN
> through eth0. eth1
> goes to Smartax MT800. rp-pppoe. Running a caching
> BIND too rather
> than going through bsnl dns. AND running sendmail
> for direct delivery.
> (To my knowledge bsnl dont have an smtp server yet!)
Although my machine is a 'PC' in its every sense, I
have been using BSNL broadband for over 3 weeks now.
> This brings us to
> the convenience of hanging on to a "good" dynamic IP
> for a long time.
> ( ... )
> I presumed that if you stayed connected your dynamic
> IP will stay put.
> NOT! If there is little activity, it reconnects
> after 30 minutes or so
I have never faced this problem of getting
disconnected. I keep my PC running for hours at a time
without _any_ internet actvity (just good 'ol
listening to songs 8-) ). I don't know if your
configuration makes any difference to that.
-Kedar
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