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On Thu, 2004-07-15 19:46:39 -0700, Blaz Antonic <blaz.antonic@siol.net>
wrote in message <40F7418F.7B18@siol.net>:
> Hello,
>=20
> >    Cool. :-)  Buy me some plane tickets and consider me an American
> > refugee trying to escape a corrupt regime. :)
>=20
> Riiight ... it wasn't me who was implying that the likes of me should
> "dump the crappy ISP and give the business to one who will give you
> static addresses". While i don't mind  (and came to expect) an
> ideological remark here and there (when on topic, as in on the subject
> of OSes in our case) this kind of babbling really irritates me - if it
> was that easy people would do it already, don't you think ? Could there

It's just about costs. If you reserve one IP address per customer, you
need N addresses. If you dynamically assign them, you can bet on only
x% of your customers are concurrently online. So you only need x*N/100
addresses, which is (especially for a small ISP that has to buy those
addresses from his upstream partner) waaay cheaper. OTOH, I would be
mostly happy if I got some static IPv6 addresses (not freenet6.net) from
my ISP, omitting all the legacy IPv4 stuff:)

MfG, JBG

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