[Cialug] Mediacom DesMoines

[Adam Hill]

> after you grab a DHCP address for your firewall box or router, set it as
static

In my experience your DHCP addressed IP will stick for equally as long as
this setup unless you somehow wipe out your DHCP lease, change hardware, or
something along those lines.

Hardware changes or periods of being offline (and someone else stealing
your previously leased IP) are the things that'll change your IP AFAIK.

RE Dyndns: Pretty sure CloudFlare does free DNS with dyndns support?
Haven't used it since I'm using namecheap's dyndns; lots of domain
registrars provide dyndns for free now.  Just write up a ddclient.conf and
leave it running.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:17 PM L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, chris rheinherren wrote:
>
> > Mediacom only gives static's to Commercial customers. If it's a
> residential
> > account then they wont be able to have a static IP.
> >
> Same deal with Charter here in St. Louis. I did find out something tha
> might be beneficial - after you grab a DHCP address for your firewall box
> or router, set it as static - been using the same IP for many years.
>
> Also figured out the routing standard for the Charter network - if your IP
> is n.n.n.n, the gateway is usually n.n.n.1.
>
> IOW, the Charter network doesn't care that you have a DIFFERENT DHCP
> address after reboot/reset, only that you are using a valid one. Could be
> the same for Mediacom?
>
>         Lee
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