ARIN?

Sat Nov 7 16:42:12 UTC 1998

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> What you don't seem to understand is that cable modem customers are
> connected 24x7. @Home does use DHCP, but the address almost never
> changes since DHCP is designed to keep assigning the same address to
> the same host as long as possible. Think of them as pseudo-static.

If this is the case, then all of the mid to large size ISPs should be able
to justify a whole bunch of new space based on DSL customers... They are
always connected so they can have a full time address too, whether through
static or DHCP...

Tim

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