On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:44:56 -0400, Warren Oates wrote:
> It's not that she doesn't know what she's talking about, it's that she's
> a trifle confused and very obsessed with a non-issue.

Hi Warren Oates,

Again, thank you for your kind response. The question is posed to a group
of experts on routers and firewalls how to get a firewalled router to
connect to a PPPoE ISP after a well defined circumstance occurs - namely,
the modem is turned on after a 4-hour period where it was off.

If that question sounds "confused" to you, then it must be confusing to
others (perhaps that's why there is so much traffic on this one thread) so
I will restate the question specifically below.

QUESTION TO FIREWALL ROUTER NETWORK EXPERTS ONLY:
- Given PPPoE and WinXP and the Linksys WRT54G router ...
- If you turn off the modem to Pacific Bell for four hours ...
- Which always results in the ISP dropping the assigned IP address ...
- Wouldn't you expect the Linksys router to reconnect to the ISP on demand?