Internet sharing with linux and win98 machines

[Benjamin Minshall]

Despite it's name, DHCP does not have to be dynamic nor does it require
lease lengths.  It is a trivial matter on a DHCP server to have set up
static assignment maps like...

	if MAC = AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA then IP = 1.2.3.4

In this situation, there is no expiration, the IP address is 'static', and
if needed, the cable modem company can change their IP allocating scheme
without sending "Click on the network control panel" instructions to
hundreds of customers.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu
[mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Marcel Kunath
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:21 PM
To: Seth D Mosier
Cc: kunathma@pilot.msu.edu; linux-user@egr.msu.edu
Subject: Re: Internet sharing with linux and win98 machines


Well I hate to be anal but I think we must be in this case.

It is still a lease with a lengthy period. My friend in Sydney has a dhcp
address which usually never changes. It's lease is long.

The reason to be anal is that we trying to advise somebody how to hook up to
ATT with Linux. If I said "static IP" then I would say call ATT and ask what
your static IP is. They will say "huh, what?" I have to tell him its a
dynamic
IP because its assigned by an DHCP server and I am sure the first time he
hooks up to it it is assigned at random.

I mean even if the lease is long he could not connect to ATT if he specified
the IP on his machine as static and was not using a dhcp client. Or can
somebody tell me otherwise that they are using @Home without dhcp client?

mk


> > I've had @Home in Maryland, and yes, @Home gives you static IPs over
DHCP. > It's kinda weird. Its one of those, technically it's DHCP, but this
is
> what your first assignment's going to be and odds are it'll never change.
> (It never did while I was there - 2 years).
>
> It's kinda dumb, but then again who said @Home was smart?
> --Seth
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Marcel Kunath wrote:
>
> > >
> > > But he said that @Home uses static IP addresses.  Maybe
> > > statically allocated IP addresses via DHCP then?
> > > --
> >
> > Damn I had overread that. Is this true? Or is it just a long lease for a
> > dynamic IP??? Why would every @Home customer get static IP's? Is IPv6
that
> > close to production? =)
> >
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