[lir-wg] Static IP addresses

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:23:16 +0200 (MET DST)
Berislav Todorovic <beri at eurorings.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Bob Arnesen wrote:
> 
> >> to my surprise I have recently found out that Telia has assigned us a
> >> fixed IP address.
> 
> Yes ... as that's the case with most of the ADSL providers elsewhere.
> 
> >From the RIPE policy perspective, ADSL is sitting in the vacuum
> between dial-in (needing dynamically assigned addresses) and leased
> line access (where static addresses are justifiable). ADSL is, in
> fact, an "always on" kind of service and thus usage of statically
> assigned IP addresses is justified (see ripe-234 - section 5.2.2).

Telia assigns IPs with DHCP but they try to lock it to the users MAC adress, so I don't see that as a problem.
They try to assign the same IP as often as possible since most users like that, the adress is locked to the MAC but is released if that MAC isn't avaliable after a few hours

/John