"Arthur H. Edwards" wrote: > I'm a bit confused. On a normal dial-up I have been using PPP and do > have a static IP address. If ADSL is using PPP what about DSL prevents > PPP from doing the same thing?
actually its up to the radius or router of the isp to supply an ip. They can use a fixed ip for each useraccount (which is very nice) or they can use a fixed ip per "peering point", in other words, one fixed ip per telefonline. As you can not predict at which line your call will be accepted, you get a "random/dynamic" ip-number from your point of view as a dial-up-customer). And the third solution: The router requests an ip-number at a radius-server. Most radius-Servers I know simply suggest the first free number in the list. You can NACK that and thats fine :-) Christian Brandt
