[22174] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ignorant mass-media strikes again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Wed Dec 9 21:56:01 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:37:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: jon@zeeff.com
cc: "Michael P. Lyle" <icee@phoenix.lyle.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0znse4-0004IPC@maya.whs.verio.net>
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Jon Zeeff wrote:
> Is there equipment that, short of a fixed ip, tries to reassign the same
> ip back to the same user? Ie, puts the ip address in a fifo but pulls it
> out early if it's the same user calling back.
When we started out years ago, every user got a static IP. That's since
changed, but I've always thought a decent NAT between the dialup equipment
and the net would be nice. The user would always get the same address
back and could resume their session... I actually did the inverse at home
for some time with IPFilter's NAT. I could have a bunch of term sessions
on various boxes and resume all of them when the router/pc dialed back in
after being dropped. I did have a static IP, but only one for about 5
machines...
Charles
