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Old 16th May 2008
JMJ_coder JMJ_coder is offline
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Hello,

Some new insights - it isn't so much the computer booting cold, as it is the modem do so. When the modem is powered on initially, it doesn't start negotiating with the ISP until the DHCP client tells it to, then it starts talking and very quickly dhclient gets enough information to go on, but the modem is still negotiating. So that when I first login (with some very quick typing, I might add ), I can ping the internet via DNS, but ifconfig shows the IP address as the private address - no alias (I wonder if you try to create an alias of the same address if it drops it). Within a matter of seconds, the modem is finished negotiating and gives dhclient the IP address, which displays via ifconfig - still no alias.

The reason it works on a soft boot is because the modem is still retaining all the DHCP information on a line that is still leased to me and it doesn't spend half a minute having to negotiate with the ISP after dhclient thinks it is done.
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