Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:09:55 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, "Martin-Legene, Robert" <robert.martin-legene@intel.com>, "'muditha@seychelles.net'" <muditha@seychelles.net>, list@inet-access.org, Freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pricing question? Message-ID: <199909131009.LAA54359@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:06:19 %2B0200." <19990913110619.A59569@skriver.dk>
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> On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:41:17AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > [.....]
> > > When I worked for an ISP, a private subscriber could not be given
> > > a fixed IP. If you had a corporate dial-in you could get even blocks
> > > of IP##. Of course the price was noticably different. But private
> > > customers "doesn't need a fixed IP#" (yes, you may flame me now) ;-)
> >
> > Of course the ``correct'' thing would be to have the NASs smart
> > enough to allow the client to request the IP number that they had
> > last time and allocate it if they can. Currently, no NASs that I
> > know of are smart enough to do this (except ppp(8) of course!).
>
> Cisco AS5300 does exactly this. The user doesn't even has to request it,
> if the IP number the customer had the last time, is available the
> customer gets them same number.
Excellent ! I feel a precedent coming on :-)
> /Jesper
>
> --
> Jesper Skriver (JS4261-RIPE), Network manager
> Tele Danmark DataNet, IP section (AS3292)
>
> One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them,
> One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
>
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