[21192] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Sena)
Sat Nov 7 07:08:33 1998
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 06:16:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Rich Sena <ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net>
To: johnl@iecc.com
cc: bross@mindspring.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981107054202.23596.qmail@xuxa.iecc.com>
On 7 Nov 1998 johnl@iecc.com wrote:
> 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.
Yep most I know are DHCP - but it is more of a feeble attempt to stop ppl
from running web servers and it eliminates the install techs from having
to do as much configuration. But for the purposes of address stewardship
- there is no savings of address space in this scenario - they are up 24x7
and if they loose their connection they usually come back up before they
lose their lease. So for the purposes here - they are statically
addressed. ARIN's dynamic address requirement is intended for the
purpose of address conservation - not for ease of configurtion.
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I am nothing if not net-Q! - ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net
