RE: [Nolug] DHCP lease thingy

Renewing IP with DHCP only takes 2 packets, Question YES or NO and answer.
If connection is still on, IP does not change therefore no interruption to
any transfers.

Correct if I'm wrong

Petri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@patientcarerx.com
> [mailto:owner-nolug@patientcarerx.com]On Behalf Of Michael B. Roetto
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:37 AM
> To: nolug@patientcarerx.com
> Subject: 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/
>
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>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:39 pm, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >
> > > 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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