North America not interested in IP V6

Sat Aug 2 20:27:31 UTC 2003

> That's one way of doing it; a large cable ISP in the Netherlands
> required customers to phone in when they had fried their network card.
> Nowadays the cable modems handed out to subscribers allow configuration
> of this by the end customer.
> 
> BUT: I don't think Chris and me were thinking about big bad ugly LANs
> with customers attached indiscriminately, though.  With DSL provisioning
> systmes using RFC1483 bridged (do I have my buzzwords correct here?) the
> DHCP server can discriminate between customers based on VCI/VPI numbers
> instead, negating the need to look at the MAC address of the request.

When you dont have alternatives, it does seem like a possible good idea.
When it costs money to add additional customers, any additional step that a
customer should make gives the customer yet another reason to switch to
someone that does not make them jump.

Alex