On Wednesday 20 December 2006 09:56, Sandy Drobic wrote: > > No, my provider does give static IPs if you ask for it, on adsl (or > > whatever). It is used by small businesses, and also people needing it to > > work from home because their company has set their firewall to admit > > connections from certain IPs only, and things like that. > > Well, I wouldn't call it a static ip if these ips are in the same address > space as the dial up addresses. (^-^)
Sorry, you don't get to make the definitions Sandy. A static is an ip that is specific to a mac address and will not be assigned to anyone else. Most ISPs simply make a reservation in the dhcpd.conf with a host record specifying a mac address and whatever IP that mac happens to have at the moment. Even those that do have a special block reserved for statics frequently make no distinction in the reverse. The term static does not reflect address space, only use. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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