Re: dhcp (pump)

On Thursday, Jul 3rd 2003 at 08:01 -0400, quoth David J. R. Brook:

=>I have an old pentium box running 7.1 that acts as a
=>firewall between my cable modem and home computers.
=>The external ip address is configured via dhcp using pump.
=>Problem is that the computer fails to renew the lease on the
=>ip address on a regular basis. If I log on to the computer
=>and type 'pump' it (somtimes) renews the lease, but it
=>doesn't seem to do it automatically. I called the ISP
=>(Comcast) to ask if there were any problems on their end -
=>they said my network card (an old ne2000) was crapping out.
=>Not sure if i believe it. Any ideas?

Do not use pump. It's broken. Use dhcpcd.

The problem is that when a lease is expired pump aborts. Dhcpcd will ask 
for a new lease.

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