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To: John Stichnoth who wrote (3221)3/26/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Read Replies (2) of 12823
 
John the manner in which IP addresses are administered is one of the differentiators among DLECs/ILECs. On the consumer side, I think that IP leasing is going to be prevalent for a number of reasons. Some of them on the business/soho side will provide static addressing, and some will deploy dynamic techniques, like dynamic host configuration protocol, or DHCP. There are some who will allow a single address to assume various proxies by the subscriber using DHCP in carrier- or customer- provided equipment (CPE) on prem. Each of these scenarios plays to a different set of addressing rules.

I should add that this practice is not unique to DSL. On Compuserve and AOL dialups, and the like, addresses are routinely "leased" to the subscriber on a 'per session' basis. Not sure about straight cable modem, but when Cableiphony becomes prevalent on cable systems, I would imagine that the same would hold true there, as well.

One would have to investigate a prospective DSL provider to ascertain what options they offer. Other threadsters will add to this, hopefully. I've not investigated this in some time. Comments welcome. Frank_C.
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