Re: Static v Dynamic IP on dial-up?

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:53:25 +0200


Hi!

> >> 1. Having a dial-up with static IP means that one can only have one
> >> link in use at a time, thus the EQL driver serves no purpose in
> >> this situation. This can on occasion be a serious handicap.
>
> > Only if the ISP end doesn't support it. If the ISP end supports
> > load-sharing over multiple interfaces, there should be no problem.
>
> My experience (with an ISP that explicitly allows multi-connects) has
> been that wish static IP's, as soon as the second modem is
> authenticated, both drop because of protocol violations connected with
> having duplicated IP's...

Well, you'd have to have _2 or more_ static IPs assigned :-).

> With the same ISP, when we switched to dynamic IP's, everything
> started working as it's supposed to...

Pavel

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