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Re: Ignorant mass-media strikes again
From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc () iMach com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 18:21:50 -0700 (MST)
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Jon Zeeff wrote:
Is there equipment that, short of a fixed ip, tries to reassign the same ip back to the same user? Ie, puts the ip address in a fifo but pulls it out early if it's the same user calling back.
I was working on some radius code to do this. Bascically allocate everything out of a big ip pool and keep track of which user each IP was assigned to last, and if when they re-connected, the IP was still available, re-assign it to them. However, I quit working on it when I discovered the following...
I bet Ms. Thorton never heard that TCP can preserve idle connections when dial-up link is down. Yeah, dial-on-demand is such a hard thing to do!
This is great and wonderful, EXCEPT the microsoft stack WILL NOT keep a connection open across multiple "dialin sessions". This effectively breaks any desire to be semi-statically allocated. Microsoft's crappy stack strikes again.... - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc () imach com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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