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No, it's not a contradiction.  Many places use this for ease of
administration.  With DHCP, when your ethernet card sends a DHCP request
for an IP, the DHCP server 'leases' the IP address to your ethernet card.
If they set the length of the lease to inifinity (or an arbitrary really
high number), you never lose your lease, therefore everytime the DHCP
server gets a request with your MAC address, you will get the same IP.

Had they told you to setup a specific IP address, and for some reason down
the line had to change it, they would have to rely on you to make the
change.  Here, all they have to do is change their DHCP server and all is
taken care of (except for any registrations that you may have, which are
your responsibility anyway).

All in all, it is an ease of use on their end, and for newbies that don't
know how to setup an IP since Windoze sets up by default for DHCP.

Hope this helps

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Carl Lackey wrote:

> Well, I sent a question to telocity.  I asked about seeming contradictions
> in their FAQ.  They say they assign a permanent IP when you place your
> order.  They also say they use DHCP.  Isn't that a contradiction?  Anway
> their answer was nothing more than the url of the same FAQ.
> 
> Not a good way to treat a potential customer.  I guess I could say that my
> first impression is not very good.
> 
> Carl in Raleigh
> 
> disgruntled bellsouth customer wrote:
> 
> > Ordered Bellsouth ADSL 3 weeks ago.  Install  is scheduled for tomorrow.
> >
> > Just received a call today that they couldn't test my line because of
> > an address conflict.  I verified the address as correct.  It is the
> > same address they send my phone bills too.  It is the same address
> > they have come to on two separate occasions to fix line problems.
> > Apparently the guy who is supposed to test the phone line can't read
> > a map.  I live in an apartment building and the street only exists
> > within the complex and is about 300 meters long.  It is on any Thomas
> > bros. map printed within the last 5 years.  Fed Ex and UPS make
> > deliveries here all the time--I guess Fed Ex and UPS have higher
> > intelligence/educational requirements for their drivers than
> > Bellsouth has for their telecomunications technicians.  I don't
> > know if I want one of these dumbasses in my house now.
> >
> > The sad part is they have a big building on Strickland.
> > From my porch, using a 7 iron, I can hit a golf ball and hit their
> > building.
> >
> > What a bunch of idiots.  Now I got bounced back another 3 weeks.
> > After reading all the stuff on this group I knew something would go
> > wrong.  But I expected a more exotic excuse:  Time Warner-trained
> > squirrels eating wires, lightning strike, the-two-weeks-before-Y2K-bug
> > bug, something... but an imaginary address conflict 100 meters from a
> > major Bellsouth maintenance structure?
> >
> > The only reason I wanted Bellsouth is my company pays for
> > my phone bill and internet and Telocity can't put it on my
> > phone bill.  So I will just have to send in two bills instead.
> > A small price to pay to be free of  their crappy service.
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> 
> 
> 


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 Trey Waters                                       pswaters@eos.ncsu.edu
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