Hello Vijay, You said " we probably should stay away from drawing a general conclusion for other access methods like cable and fiber".
But I would say we cannot draw a general conclusion at all. I would say this changes across DSL provider and different regions/countries. I do not think this is tied to access technology but more to ISP policy and address assignment technology. In the US although it changes, you can go for much longer with the same IP address in DSL networks. In general I would say these matter. 1 - Do the ISP (or division of the ISP) that provides broadband have enough IPv4 addresses? 2 - Do they use PPPoX or DHCP or something else? 3 - Flat-rate or not. Actually, this should not actually matter I think probably the IP addresses assignment policy/technology has not caught up with users and a low idle (or session) timeout in their CPEs. It is usually much easier and practical to reassign the same IP address if possible due to billing, logging, legal interception, OAM, etc. 4 - In a IPv6-native world probably this will not matter. Thanks, Reinaldo On 2/10/10 1:14 PM, "Vijay K. Gurbani" <[email protected]> wrote: > 3) IP addresses are re-assigned frequently, with up to 4% > of addresses assigned more than 10 times a day, and 50% > are reassigned at least twice in 24h (in other words, > the use of IP addresses as host identifiers can be > misleading over fairly short time scales.) _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
