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Re: North America not interested in IP V6

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Sat Aug 02 15:12:45 2003 

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Niels Bakker wrote:

>
> [E.B. Dreger writes]
> >> Assign unchanging IP address based on MAC address.  Done/done.
>
> * [email protected] ([email protected]) [Sat 02 Aug 2003, 20:28 CEST]:
> > And quadrupple your techsupport costs? Thanks, but no thanks.
>
> For always assigning the same IP address to a customer?  Why would this
> increase support costs?

especially done via dhcp... you could probably even automate getting new
ips from a dynamic pool and slapping them into permanent assignments.