On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Itamar Ravid wrote: > The point in this post - I was wondering if there is anyone here who connects > directly using DHCP. Using the PPTP dialer slows my boot-process by ~15 seconds, > since the PPTP tunnel apparently takes some time to be established. Also, if I > wasn't using a GRE tunnel, my Netfilter matters would be less complicated.
<sarcasm> My my, 15 seconds delay at boot time !!! That must completely ruin your computing experience, I say switch ISPs. </sarcasm> Now with that out of the way, this complaint can clearly show you why the Israeli customer is such an annoying one, never satisfied, always bickering and complaining. Had you been in the US or even Europe, you'd be told the following: 1). We offer PPtP connections. 2). We do not offer anything else. That response would be uniform across the board. You must understand that maintaining various ways of connecting means $$$ for the ISPs, complicated procedures, both in Customer Support and network maintennace, and other problems I am not going to go into. Since this "service" (DHCP direct) offers a minuscule advantage to you (15 seconds shorter boot time, and one less iptables rule), I'd say that your ISP is not being unfair to you. However, if you chose Ilya's (in a reply mail to you) 1st point (threatening to leave), I believe you will be unfair to them. Not that Israeli's care about others. --Ariel > > -- > Regards, Itamar Ravid > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
