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Date:      Mon, 8 Feb 1999 22:34:52 -0800 (PST)
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG (Gary Palmer)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/
Message-ID:  <199902090634.WAA65450@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3124.918540757@gjp.erols.com> from Gary Palmer at "Feb 9, 1999  1:12:37 am"

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Gary Palmer wrote:
> Steve Kargl wrote in message ID
> <199902090603.WAA65186@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>:
> > I do live in a dhcp world, but our net admins appreciate
> > the fact my machines are up 7/24 and serve my research group, 
> > so they have given me a fixed ip.
> 
> That argument won't work with Media-One, Roadrunner, RCN, etc who just simply 
> *DO* *NOT* *SUPPORT* *STATIC* *IP* *ASSIGNMENTS*. How can we make this any 
> clearer to you? Its fine to say `I don't want to see DHCP in the base system' 
> when you have the choice of getting a static IP. A lot of the emerging 
> high-speed access providers aren't giving you that option.
> 

Then, *BUY* the cd-rom and support the FreeBSD project.

-- 
Steve

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