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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23
that is how it worked on dial up but since virign use cisco they have otehr parameters that aint the normal to what you are tlaking about but you do havea lease period i think its about 300 days then if you modem is not on when it reissues then you get a new one next tiem you conenct
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Quick note - the Cisco equipment is in no way involved in IP address allocation / DHCP beyond forwarding the DHCP traffic between modem, client and server, the server being the equipment that deals with giving out and tracking the leases. It works as Zhadnost suggested.
It didn't work in that manner in dialup, dialup used PPP not DHCP and the IP address came directly from whichever modem you connected to at VM, not from a server.