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Date:      Wed, 16 Jun 1999 23:23:07 -0700
From:      Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@ethereal.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dhcp client request for a netblk - ideas?
Message-ID:  <19990616232307.A11763@ethereal.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906151556580.11204-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 04:00:06PM -0700
References:  <14179.42425.782408.505357@penny.south.mpcs.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906151556580.11204-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 04:00:06PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Howard Goldstein wrote:
> 
> > Telco willing, I'm having SDSL installed this week.  It comes with a
> > /28 static netblk but according to the salesdroid, with a catch and a
> > half: The addresses must be leased..  Once leased, they're static.
> 
> dynamic-bootp, eh?
> 
> Er, that doesn't smell right ... why on earth bother with DHCP then??  And
> just what keeps you from sucking up as many IPs as you can generate
> Ethernet addresses for?    >>:->  

I'll bet by static, they mean 'We give you an IP and it's least lasts a month
or two'. At a company I worked for they did that. It makes it very easy to
renumber, which is common enough in cable and *DSL scenarios as they add
in more subscribers than they have IPs in the area. :)

> Doug White                               
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org

Jamie

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