Yes, I'm pretty sure that it's using DHCP to assign IP addresses. I don't
think that's the problem here, though. Once the machine gets an IP
address, it shouldn't change for the session. That's why you connect via
host name.

-Joe

At 07:32 PM 12/5/2002 +1100, you wrote:

>Joe,
>DSL and cable often use DHCP to assign IP addresses. That means that the IP
>address changes (or may change) each time they log off/log-on and them
>sometimes the DHCP client cannot re-lease the same IP. This means that their
>connection may be problematic.
>Do they have a fixed IP? or is what I am refering to make sense?
>Alan
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Martinez [mailto:joe@...]
> > Sent: Thursday, 5 December 2002 10:18
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> > Subject: Re: [ib-support] Can't connect to server
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> > One other thing that I didn't mention:
> >
> > They have DSL, and are using some sort of DSL router hub with
> > automatic IP
> > address assignment. Could that be the problem? Could the DSL router be
> > blocking the port? How would I check that?
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