Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:41:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Martin-Legene, Robert" <robert.martin-legene@intel.com> Cc: "'muditha@seychelles.net'" <muditha@seychelles.net>, list@inet-access.org, Freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pricing question? Message-ID: <199909130841.JAA53625@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Sep 1999 01:06:24 PDT." <CD4DE0181670D211AC5400A0C94BD1B8B4046A@dksmsx30.idk.intel.com>
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> 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) ;-)
Ok :-)
IMHO everybody needs a static IP number. I can't see any reason a
corporate would need a static IP number when a private doesn't.
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!).
With lots of different pieces of hardware, each of which has a
different block of IP numbers to allocate, it becomes difficult from
the NASs point of view, but this is the same thing that we're all
faced with in an MP environment. I think they should either just
create the back-channel, or else people should put pressure on the
telcos to make them get smarter and deal with this sort of stuff at
their end (is that possible? I don't know much about how much the
telco does and how much the ISPs NAS does).
As a minimum, the NAS could *at least* dish out the same IP number if
it's in the local block and is currently unused. That way people
with a dynamic IP can sometimes get lucky when they didn't mean to
let their connection time out :-]
> -- Robert Martin-Legène
> The opinions expressed are only my own, and does not reflect
> the opinions of Intel.
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