<snip> > Back in the days of dial-up, providing a fixed IP address was quite > a > hard problem to solve, given that each time you dialled in you > almost > certainly came in on a different modem/port. Most ISPs simply > assigned > an IP address to each port and thus that's what you got. Demon went > to > a lot of trouble to switch the routing around for each customer and > thus > give you a static address. >
I had a colleague in the early 00's who worked at Demon in the late 90's, who said they called it BURP - Bloody Useless Routing Protocol! Cheers Iain -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
