If I'm not mistaken, the POET software sounds like email and if that is correct, it will have nothing to do with your IP assignment. Your IP is assigned to you via a DHCP server on the ISP's end so you don't need any software to get your IP address except what's included in windows already. If it is email software, try using Outlook, it should work.




On Wednesday, September 5, 2001 at 9:33 am, Erich Pfeiffer wrote:
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>On Sunday, September 2, 2001 at 6:54 pm, Curt R wrote:
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I'm curious....what software is this? Does it have something do with the DSL
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>>or with browsing the web? Hi: AFAIK the "Poet" in Winpoet stands for "Post office
>protocol over the Ethernet". Users do not have a permanent IP address but the ISP
>assigns them a dynamic address every time they log on, as with a dial-up connection,
>which they keep as long as they remain logged on. Earthlink uses WinPoet software
>from Wind River for this. Last Friday I helped a guy to get his Earthlink DSL connection
>up, and it took me 5 hours, 90 minutes talking to Earthlink customer service. However,
>the problem was NOT with Earthlink or Wind River, but with the #4%@ Windows 98! (W98
>asked for a file to uninstall Winpoet and to re-install it, and it wanted the W98
>CD-ROM inserted - however, the file was packed in a .cab file so it could not find
>it......)
>Regards Erich

Written in response to: re: Windows 2000 and DSL (Erich Pfeiffer: Wednesday, September 5, 2001 at 9:33 am) Responses to this message: re: Windows 2000 and DSL (JHess: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 11:49 am)

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