From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Sat Aug 02 2003 - 16:27:31 EDT
> That's one way of doing it; a large cable ISP in the Netherlands
> required customers to phone in when they had fried their network card.
> Nowadays the cable modems handed out to subscribers allow configuration
> of this by the end customer.
>
> BUT: I don't think Chris and me were thinking about big bad ugly LANs
> with customers attached indiscriminately, though. With DSL provisioning
> systmes using RFC1483 bridged (do I have my buzzwords correct here?) the
> DHCP server can discriminate between customers based on VCI/VPI numbers
> instead, negating the need to look at the MAC address of the request.
When you dont have alternatives, it does seem like a possible good idea.
When it costs money to add additional customers, any additional step that a
customer should make gives the customer yet another reason to switch to
someone that does not make them jump.
Alex
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