Yeah, if all you want to do is browse and bounce email off someone else's SMTP, you will be OK with DHCP. I use an old 486 (fanless!) and IP chains on Debian to packet filter my little network. I used to run ftp but an FBI raid in Toledo for uncaping modems changed my mind about that, so I have to put up baby pictures 10 megs at a time where once I had two gigs of pics with html indexes.
"Broadband" seems to suck in Baton Rouge. Cox forbids "servers," and wants to charge for every normal service you could run yourself. They block inbound port 25 and 80 and have disrupted 22. I think BellSouth is the same way, but never have used them, having been disgusted with their ToS. Telocity rocked. Having not spent extra money to build a DHCP infrastructure for "always on" internet connections and you could do what you wanted to with that static IP they gave you except spam and DoS. Is there light at the end of the $40/month tunnel? Anyone working on 802.11 mesh? /******************************************* Message: 9 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:15:22 -0800 (PST) From: Kory Wnuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [brlug-general] Bellsouth DSL Connection To: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] Hey Edmund, After having done some reading regarding the DYNDNS, I think that I understand the implcations. Correct me if I am wrong, but I should be able to get by with just DHCP if I am not attempting to run a website, ftp server, etc. from my PC. *******************************************/
