[21187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (johnl@iecc.com)
Sat Nov 7 00:54:07 1998
From: johnl@iecc.com
Date: 7 Nov 1998 05:42:02 -0000
To: bross@mindspring.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981107000143.6122B-100000@xymox.netops.mindspring.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>> Cable modem subscribers normally are not dynamically assigned IPs like
>> dialups. Besides, they are advertised as a constant connection, and a lot
>> of people use it as such.
All of the cable modem subscribers I know have dynamic IPs assigned by
DHCP. A suitably aggressive DHCP client can usually keep the lease
renewed so the IP doesn't change, but they are most certainly not
static IP addresses.
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