Re: DHCP Use (was Re: )

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

On 4/25/10 4:33 PM, Tony Hoyle wrote:
> On 25/04/2010 22:06, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>
> > The whole idea that DHCP should only be used for (and is absolute proof
> > of the status of) despised-class customers is just nuts.
>
>
> I've never seen DHCP used on residential DSL circuits.. it's all PPP (oA
> mostly, and oE if you want) in this country (which the telco picks up
> and sends as L2TP to the DSL provider).  I get alocated my /26 and it
> doesn't matter which LNS I connect to or how I get there (indeed I can
> talk L2TP directly to the provider to connect over 3G etc.).

I have, once, with routed bridged encapsulation instead of PPP.

~Seth