General Questions

Lately, I've been having problems with road runner at home.  Periodically, the connection will drop [for reasons which Time Warner has been unable to determine, having been here 3 times in the past week... great].  m0n0wall eventually realizes that it is no longer connected and shows that its IP is 0.0.0.0

My question is this:  Is there a way to have m0n0wall periodically (say, every 5 minutes) renew its DHCP address on the WAN interface if it isn't connected.

I can think of some rather hackish ways of doing it (using a cron job on a remote box to detect if we're connected, and if not, issue the renew dhcp command), but I'd much rather do this internal to m0n0wall.

I haven't had any probs since i installed 3com (xl's) 3c905 ethernet cards with onboard paraller tasking II
processors. These cards have in-built keep-alive packet sending possibilities which minimises normal IP renewal cycle.
I've had same WAN IP-address for couple of months for now.

dhclient in FreeBSD does routinely try to renew if it loses its lease. My cable's been down for days before and it picked up a lease as soon as it was working again without touching it.