[ntp:questions] Re: NTP looses connection

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:06 PM +0200 2004-10-29, Maarten Wiltink wrote:

>>  If you're directly connected to your DSL modem, then the IP
>>  address of your NTP server changes every time you re-connect.
>
>  Not on its internal interface, it doesn't.

	It depends on how you connect to your upstream provider.  I'm not 
entirely up to speed on how PPPoE works, but my understanding is that 
the DSL modem is really a modem, and the only IP address it ever gets 
assigned to it is on the external interface, which the host has to be 
aware of.

	This would be no different than running SLIP or PPP on a regular 
analog modem.

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