From: Peter Hessler (phesslertriplecanopy.com)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 13:59:11 CDT

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On Jun 1, 2004, at 11:39 AM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> 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.
>

How so? The ISP I use[1] has been static IP only for quite a while.
All but one of the DSL offerings gets up to 4 ips, and some get 8.
They didn't offer DHCP for the users until about 6 months ago. The
DHCP pool for that address only gives you your allocation, not random
addresses from somewhere else.

They give you step-by-step instructions on how to setup your machine to
use static ips, with pretty pictures. Users *can* follow instructions,
if they are clear enough.

[1] http://sonic.net Excellent internet for the Greater San Francisco
Bay Area.

Are we Off Topic enough yet?

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