From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Sep 13 3: 5:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C7614FEA for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:05:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA32148; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:04:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA54359; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:09:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199909131009.LAA54359@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jesper Skriver Cc: Brian Somers , "Martin-Legene, Robert" , "'muditha@seychelles.net'" , list@inet-access.org, Freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pricing question? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:06:19 +0200." <19990913110619.A59569@skriver.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:09:55 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. > -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message