[60187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: North America not interested in IP V6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Sat Aug 2 16:25:01 2003
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 16:27:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030802194345.GL89160@snowcrash.tpb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> That's one way of doing it; a large cable ISP in the Netherlands
> required customers to phone in when they had fried their network card.
> Nowadays the cable modems handed out to subscribers allow configuration
> of this by the end customer.
>
> BUT: I don't think Chris and me were thinking about big bad ugly LANs
> with customers attached indiscriminately, though. With DSL provisioning
> systmes using RFC1483 bridged (do I have my buzzwords correct here?) the
> DHCP server can discriminate between customers based on VCI/VPI numbers
> instead, negating the need to look at the MAC address of the request.
When you dont have alternatives, it does seem like a possible good idea.
When it costs money to add additional customers, any additional step that a
customer should make gives the customer yet another reason to switch to
someone that does not make them jump.
Alex
