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> 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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