Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:37:14 +1000 From: Steven Honson <shonson@planetquake.com> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pricing question? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990913193714.007cbb80@mail.planetquake.com> In-Reply-To: <19990913110619.A59569@skriver.dk> References: <199909130841.JAA53625@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> <CD4DE0181670D211AC5400A0C94BD1B8B4046A@dksmsx30.idk.intel.com> <199909130841.JAA53625@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Another way around giving users static ip's would be to write a small dynamic dns daemon that assigns users a host name which is updated when ever a user dials up, this could be done by hacking pppd and writing a small perl/c program that updates a BIND zone file. Of course that could only be done if you used FreeBSD/Linux systems. You could use the naming sceme, username.cust.myisp.net Just a idea, Steven Honson At 11:06 AM 9/13/99 +0200, you wrote: >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 > --------------------------------------- Steven Honson Internet Technologist & Consultant Taroona High School, Australia shonson@hubbub.ths.tased.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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