Cox would often cycle my dhcp lease when I first got it but has been
pretty quiet since. (Knock on wood.)  I'm actually using a smoothwall
firewall but it's running dhcpcd as well.  I just wrote a script that I
run when I notice it's happened.

Good Luck.
It's worth it.  WEEEEEE! Watch apt-get, urpmi/MandrakeUpdate, and even
those pesky winBLOWS service packs.

On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 20:15, Lee Einer wrote:
> HI, all- My internet connection to Cox.net with Mandrake 8.2 was also a 
> no-brainer.    Unfortunately, ongoing connectivity is another matter. At 
> least once every couple of days, I log on to only to discover that 
> DHCPCD has lost the connection. It seems like DHCPCD does not know that 
> it needs to do over, as once I do a "dhcpcd -k" followed by "dhcpcd" I 
> am fine. Is there a straightforward way to diagnose and fix this? It is 
> really getting to be a pain in the ass.
> 
> 
> Lee Einer
> 
> Jonathan Claxton wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Craig S. wrote:
> >
> >>All I can say is wow! I have never used DHCP before or tried to setup a
> >>*nix system with a DHCP connection. It was much easier than I expected,
> >>no wonder there are hardly any how-to's for specific connections. I
> >>dropped a netgear FA-310TX 10/100MB card into one of my PCI slots. Setup
> >>tulip drivers for kernel and setup the new image. Hooked up the cable
> >>modem, ran ifconfig and answered 3 questions: 
> >>
> >
> >Welp, welcome to the VERY FAST lane!!!!! :)
> >
> >>rebooted the system and bam.... I was online. I am a little concerned
> >>about security cause I guess I have a static IP now or at least the
> >>cable modem has a static IP. I set hosts.deny to not allow any outside
> >>connections (to ports?), outside of AIM, nntp, e-mail, www, and ftp I
> >>don't do much else. and with AIM I have a set list of people that I
> >>correspond with and that is it. Should I setup iptables for a little
> >>more insurance? I don't have anything really confidential or needing
> >>security, all my work now is with genetic algorithms and neural nets
> >>which I backup periodically. My main security concern is someone just
> >>maliciously or even just a curiosity seeker getting user access or
> >>rooting the system and screwing it up in the process because I am lazy
> >>and don't want to reconfigure my system from scratch. I have been
> >>watching my logs, using netstat, and using other basic security measures
> >>and haven't seen any malicious activity that I notice but as I said
> >>before I am no netwo!  rk security guru. Hell I am not even a network
> >>guru.
> >>
> >
> >Do what I did when I got Cox HSI server... get a firewall router. I got
> >one and I can go to sleep knowing that I don't worry about the "crackers"
> >trying to get into my home network.
> >
> >I got a NetGear RP114 router and it was VERY easy to get it going. 
> >
> >
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