Re: [Nolug] Tons of DHCPREQUEST messages in syslog

Telocity DSL (now directv) offers 1500kb/s down, 256 kb/s up, static ip,
no port restrictions for $49.99 /m.

<RANT>
i've always suspected the real reason broadband providers use DHCP doesn't
have anything to do with available addresses, it has to do with bandwidth
management , pure and simple.

with hosts having dynamic IPs, that makes them harder to find on the net,
and thus alot less likely to consume more bandwidth.

when cox,charter,bellsouth, etc, advertise an "always on" connection, i
that to mean that I have full of use of my wire , 24x7, if i
choose to.

with such short DHCP leases, you raise the possibility of breaking alot of
TCP sessions when the node renews. That makes the connection a little less
than "always on", don't it?

If providers are offering broadband connections at a certain advertised
rate, they should provision their networks to handle that load, and not
try to solve the problem through (imo) these customer unfriendly traffic
engineering schemes.
</RANT>

/m/

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:

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> On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:39 pm, Jerald Sheets wrote:
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> >
> > I'm sticking with @home through this, but with the DSL providers
> > going 768 both ways and a static IP for $79, I'm more willing to shut
> > off all my cable services and go the way of the copper pair...
>
> You're lucky. Smack dab in the middle of the 'burbs, I'm ~18K
> ft from the BS^H^HBellSouth CO. So, Cox has a captive account.
>
> As long as they don't go to address-change-on-expired-lease, I'll
> be happy in my velvet prison, 'cause from a fast host, like
> ftp.kernel.org, I easily get 2,400KBps download speed.
>
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