From: Greg A. Woods (woodsweird.com)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 13:39:07 CDT

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[ On Monday, May 31, 2004 at 21:57:55 (+0200), Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Running Postfix as a mail server
>
> Real world network management ... I think there are many ISPs that are
> doing real world network management and are still able to hand out static
> IP addresses, for instance based on the PVC. To say they are stupid does,
> IMHO, <rant deleted>

Oh, of course it's possible to hand out _some_ static addresses based on
PVC or MAC or such, within the limits of your head-end routing
architecture of course.

However to hand everyone true static IPs, and more to the point to allow
the users to think they're getting static IPs, is slow and painful suicide.

> Logging, monitoring and helpdesk calls can benefit enormously from static
> addresses. And there's still DHCP available to dynamically tell the user
> what its static address is.

It's only one more tiny step to correlate PVC or MAC IDs with IPs
through the DHCP leases, and now there's even this proposed LEASEQUERY
option which some of us have implemented or are near to implementing
which makes it even easier to do dynamically.

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