[125882] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DHCP Use (was Re: )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sun Apr 25 20:12:18 2010
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:11:38 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4BD4D13A.3060106@hoyle.me.uk>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/25/10 4:33 PM, Tony Hoyle wrote:
> On 25/04/2010 22:06, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>
>> The whole idea that DHCP should only be used for (and is absolute proof
>> of the status of) despised-class customers is just nuts.
>
>
> I've never seen DHCP used on residential DSL circuits.. it's all PPP (oA
> mostly, and oE if you want) in this country (which the telco picks up
> and sends as L2TP to the DSL provider). I get alocated my /26 and it
> doesn't matter which LNS I connect to or how I get there (indeed I can
> talk L2TP directly to the provider to connect over 3G etc.).
>
I have, once, with routed bridged encapsulation instead of PPP.
~Seth
