[WarOnPrivacy]

> Since my IP hardly changes...

Same. Our wireline ISPs used to issue new public IPs every 1-12 weeks. Now it's more like 6 mos to never.

I'm thinking this is due to pressure from IPv4 exhaustion and the rise of easy DDNS. There's also an overall shift - from using tech to protect profit-generating services to using lobbyists.

To share an anecdote from the before times: I was once trying to setup a VPN endpoint on a client's DSL connection. Every time I initiated the connection, their public IP would change. The lease renewal was fairly quick and I could trigger 5 changes a minute.

[stkdump]

For me it changes reliably on every reconnect, but there are no forced reconnects, and I now have my router not restarting basically ever since I am on openwrt and am done with setting everything up.

[WarOnPrivacy]

> For me it changes reliably on every reconnect,

What kind of reconnect?

[tcfhgj]

router to provider network