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-Leg=E8ne
> The opinions expressed are only my own, and does not reflect
> the opinions of Intel.
-- =
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