[b:5189e882c2]crowdirt :[/b:5189e882c2]
What I meant regarding the DHCP thing, is from the "end-user's" end, not the server.
My ISP started out with a 30 min lease time, but have later changed it to 1 hour
This mean's that if I have to do some HW/SW changes and stay offline for more than 1 hour,
I most probably will get a new IP.
If the server I try to connect to is only open for X IP, and I get Y IP, I can't connect, but
the one who got my "old" IP will be able to connect.
And since I still serve many dial-up users ( 56k's ), it will make it allmost impossible
for them to connect, if I ban "all-but X IP".
I have been having some problem's with hacker's, using one of Germany's biggest ISP's,
and banned their DHCP-IP range.
( both used for DSL and dial-up )
This helped me, but closed my server for many "good-user's".
So it's an option.....