From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 23:23:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camel.ethereal.net (fraenatus.ethereal.net [204.107.140.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B291014C19 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mistwolf@camel.ethereal.net) Received: (from mistwolf@localhost) by camel.ethereal.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id XAA13127; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:23:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:23:07 -0700 From: Jamie Norwood To: Doug White Cc: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp client request for a netblk - ideas? Message-ID: <19990616232307.A11763@ethereal.net> References: <14179.42425.782408.505357@penny.south.mpcs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 04:00:06PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 04:00:06PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Howard Goldstein wrote: > > > Telco willing, I'm having SDSL installed this week. It comes with a > > /28 static netblk but according to the salesdroid, with a catch and a > > half: The addresses must be leased.. Once leased, they're static. > > dynamic-bootp, eh? > > Er, that doesn't smell right ... why on earth bother with DHCP then?? And > just what keeps you from sucking up as many IPs as you can generate > Ethernet addresses for? >>:-> I'll bet by static, they mean 'We give you an IP and it's least lasts a month or two'. At a company I worked for they did that. It makes it very easy to renumber, which is common enough in cable and *DSL scenarios as they add in more subscribers than they have IPs in the area. :) > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org Jamie -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s+:+ a--(?) C++++ UB++++ P+ L--(++) E-- W++(--) N++ O? K w(---) O?>+ M?>+ V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP->++ t+(*) 5+++ X++ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D++ G e>+ h--- r+++ y+++** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message