"Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
>
> > On 12/26/2000 16:25, Eddie Torres at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Unless you get a static ip.
> >
> > That's a good point, but AFAIK there are no more cable providers giving out
> > static IP addresses. There just isn't enough of them to do that. And if they
> > are, it won't be long before they switch to DHCP. That's what happened with
> > @Home.
>
> I have a static IP address with Rogers@home here in Toronto, but they are
> switching to DHCP. I thought they already had, but nothing has changed.
> (I'm running 3 Win98 boxes and my Storm2000 through a Pentium 75 also
> running Storm.)
>
Same here in Ottawa - still static but rumored to be going DHCP soon. (Guess
I'll have to change my IPChains masquerade/firewall script to allow for that.)
What with a lot of high speed cable folks running IPmasq boxes (or special
purpose router thingies) that are kept on 24/7, I wonder whether DHCP will solve
the IP address limit anyway.
Erik
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