[Tinymux] Seeking Networking Advice

[maus at stjoelive.com]

Quoting T SS <thesilversamurai at hotmail.com>:

> >The problem I have is this:
> >
> >Everyone who connects to the games hosted on my machine has to set 
> >themselves keepalive--or otherwise run some kind of timer--in order to 
> >avoid their connection being dropped. I don't know if it is a problem with 
> >the cable modem,
> 
>      Understand that this is purely guess work and hypothesis. But, I 
> started having this problem (of the idle flag on a wiz-alt not working 
> correctly), when my local ISP started enforcing their DHCP server's dynamic 
> IP address allocation every 6 hours. Even when the actual IP address didn't 
> change, it usually dumped  telnet/scp connections, to MU*s and shells.
> 

But would a 6-8 hour turnaround on allocation result in people being dropped
consistently within a 5-15 minute range? The numbers don't seem to add up.