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Re: Need help to connect to ISP!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Kilburn)
Sat Feb 3 15:59:31 1996

In-Reply-To: <199602031607.LAA17852@dal1820.computek.net>
Date: 	Sat, 03 Feb 1996 19:55:05 +0200 (SAT)
Reply-To: duxmike@iafrica.com
From: Mike Kilburn <duxmike@iafrica.com>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu


On 03-Feb-96 "Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin" wrote:

>
>Untrue.  Static IPs are necessary under the following conditions:
>

Another place static IP is handy is when your on a very bad phone
line which keeps disconnecting (or a bad modem). A big FTP will pick up 
where it left off as long as your IP address is the same when you redial.

 -mak
>--
>Ed Carp, N7EKG    			Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com
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>
>"Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families,
>through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a
>waiting soul.  Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and
>asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'"
>
>                    -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes

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