Hi Guy, Maybe it wasn't your point, but it's all in the best traditions of driving a "high level" discussion into technicalities :)
> When on DHCP, the ISP has no ability to identify and classify the > client. Consider the following services that ISPs provide today: > - Have not surfed ? Will not pay. (if the ISP can not identify the > customer, the service will not be available to the end user) The ISP can identify the user by performing DHCP LEASEQUERY command on the cables' Cisco DHCP server. This will return the modem's MAC address, which identifies you as a subscriber. I don't know what cable solutions other vendors have. The Israeli cables use Cisco (according to their MACs :). > - QoS and prioritizing. With DHCP the ISP has no ability to treat each > end connection separately and can only shape the traffic as a whole. Not familiar with the technology. Shaping on the IP level (by source IP) doesn't work very well? > - Have you considered the legal sides ? How can abuse department track > down a customer with is abusing the net ? See above. > - How do you track a client which is spreading SPAM from his computer ? > (no tunneling = no easy way to trace back the abuser) See above. ================================================================= 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]
