[60179] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: North America not interested in IP V6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Sat Aug 2 15:11:29 2003
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 19:10:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030802185001.GJ89160@snowcrash.tpb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Niels Bakker wrote:
>
> [E.B. Dreger writes]
> >> Assign unchanging IP address based on MAC address. Done/done.
>
> * alex@yuriev.com (alex@yuriev.com) [Sat 02 Aug 2003, 20:28 CEST]:
> > And quadrupple your techsupport costs? Thanks, but no thanks.
>
> For always assigning the same IP address to a customer? Why would this
> increase support costs?
especially done via dhcp... you could probably even automate getting new
ips from a dynamic pool and slapping them into permanent assignments.
