[60188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: North America not interested in IP V6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Sat Aug 2 16:27:14 2003
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 16:25:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
Cc: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.53.0308021909090.693@rampart.argfrp.us.uu.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.
Rubbish.
If you do that, you lose all the benefits. Also, when a customer's
son/daugter/computer-expert-from-chubb-institute-friend does something and
it breaks your lovely system you will not just increase your tech support
costs, but also will lose the customer.
Alex
