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Date:	Sun, 11 May 2003 10:53:43 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	Harry Motin <hmotin@sbcglobal.net > , scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Static IP

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Harry Motin wrote:

> On Tue, 6 May 2003 09:24:04 PDT7, J. R. Fox wrote:
>
> >to prevent) much easier. It may also be a superior quality of service. I do
> >recall that PPoE was considered quite kludgy, and a PITA for OS/2 users.
> >There wasn't much support for it. I could well be wrong, but that's how I
> >remember it.
>
> I'm no expert here, but I think that there may not have been much hardware and
> software support for PPPoE. For example, I recently bought the Injoy firewall. Their
> latest version, the one I got, only now supports PPPoE.
> HCM

Yes, as best I can recall, PPPoE was for awhile Windoze supported only, then, later, it
was -- for US -- Injoy or nothing. I don't know whether or not that is still the case.
I can tell you that -- given a choice -- I would always pick a static address over the
DHCP variety, even if it meant paying a few bucks a month extra. I couldn't recite for
you the gory details, but I remember being told that one's Home-Network-with-internet-
connections-for-each-box options were clearly better with a Static IP. Specifically,
that
you could set up certain things that the ISP would otherwise much rather prevent, or
charge you a lot extra for. (That may have more to do with running Sites or servers
from
home -- I'm not sure. It's ultimately a bandwidth usage issue, I believe.)

Jordan

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