North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Ignorant mass-media strikes again
Is there equipment that, short of a fixed ip, tries to reassign the same ip back to the same user? Ie, puts the ip address in a fifo but pulls it out early if it's the same user calling back. > > I bet Ms. Thorton never heard that TCP can preserve idle connections > > when dial-up link is down. Yeah, dial-on-demand is such a hard thing > > to do! > > Well, yes. But if you're on a dynamic IP, good luck at getting the > answers to your packets when you call up and are assigned a new IP.
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