[125892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DHCP Use (was Re: )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Mon Apr 26 01:03:35 2010
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:03:01 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4BD4DA3A.3090406@rollernet.us>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/25/2010 5:11 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
My old company does it this way. Made life very easy. Most consumer
grade routers come set for DHCP out of the box so it is plug and play.
