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         Reply to:   RE>Re: MacTCP/Telnet 
RL "Bob" Morgan writes:
> Personally, I've never understood why anyone would use
> statically-assigned addresses, since they're harder to set up and have
> no obvious benefits.  Are there applications that require them?

Here are three reasons:
1) I have not studied the causes and thus cannot explain it, but some
Telnet hosts seem to take about 10 times longer (some 30 seconds as
opposed to 2 to 3 seconds) to give me a logon prompt if I use a dynamic
rather than a static address.
2) I prefer to use a static address for our mail servers, so I can address
them directly without needing to go through address resolution.
3) Also, some network bureaucrats apparently believe they can collect
"better" statistics if they can match individual users with a specific
IP address.

Wolfgang N. Naegeli
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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