[ NNSquad ] Re: ISP's resetting RealPlayer?

["Craig A. Finseth" <fin@finseth.com>]

   > Your interrupted streams may also stem from another cause. If you
   > do not have a static IP address, you may find that long term
   > connections are interrupted when your IP address is renewed or
   > changed. In this case, it's not the result of a policy decision
   > by the ISP at all, but just a normal and natural side effect --
   > and you can avoid it by paying for a static IP address.

   FWIW, this is unlikely with any normal DHCP configuration.  DHCP has a
   long window for lease renewal, so unless you go offline for an extended
   period of time (typically a day or two), you won't change IP addresses.

The duration of a DHCP lease totally depends on how the server is
configured.  If an ISP is short on IPs, I can (and have) see a lease
as short as an hour.

I'm not saying that such short leases are recommended in general, but
they are quite legal DHCP.

Craig