Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:06:19 +0200 From: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: "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: <19990913110619.A59569@skriver.dk> In-Reply-To: <199909130841.JAA53625@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:41:17AM %2B0100 References: <CD4DE0181670D211AC5400A0C94BD1B8B4046A@dksmsx30.idk.intel.com> <199909130841.JAA53625@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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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. /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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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