[Ti] DSL

[Sherman Gregory]

At 11:25 AM -0500 2/20/03, Jesse Brown wrote:
>On 2/19/03 17:12, "Robert Ameeti" <robert at ameeti.net> wrote:
>
>>>  and some (the best case) even use, or have used static IPs configured with
>>>  DHCP.
>>
>>  Huh?   You can't have Static and DHCP at the same time. The D in DHCP stands
>>  for Dynamic, which is defined as non-static.
>
>
>Robert,
>
>Yes you can. DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. You can
>manually assign an IP number and get all the rest of your network info via
>DHCP.
>

Even more than that, the DHCP server can be set up to give you the 
same (static) IP address every time, and then you do not have to do 
any manual configuration at all.

I had Telocity DSL which became DirecTV DSL which did it this way.  I 
had a static IP address, but the modem acted as a DHCP server and 
gave me the same Static IP address, along with the rest of the 
parameters.  Before anyone jumps in and says that it was just a 
coincidence that I got always the same address, the IP address that 
it gave me was the one that I was assigned a my service 
initialization, and in fact was static, and guaranteed to be so under 
my service plan.

Since DirecTV shut down the DSL division, I switched to Speakeasy (I 
highly recommend them) as my ISP which uses Covad in my area as the 
DSL provider.  I have static IP, but it is completely manually 
configured which is not a convenient as the Telocity/DirecTV way.  If 
they use PPPoE, it is completely isolated from me, and so I don't 
really care.  I hate PPPoE, and that was one of my main criteria when 
selecting a new provider.

     Sherman