Ignorant mass-media strikes again
Jon Zeeff
jzeeff at verio.net
Wed Dec 9 23:03:47 UTC 1998
Is there equipment that, short of a fixed ip, tries to reassign the same
ip back to the same user? Ie, puts the ip address in a fifo but pulls it
out early if it's the same user calling back.
> > I bet Ms. Thorton never heard that TCP can preserve idle connections
> > when dial-up link is down. Yeah, dial-on-demand is such a hard thing
> > to do!
>
> Well, yes. But if you're on a dynamic IP, good luck at getting the
> answers to your packets when you call up and are assigned a new IP.
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