high speed DSL connectivity

[James Knott]

Fraser Campbell wrote:

>>The customer has to go through all sorts of contortions and confusions to
>>deal with dynamic IP.  DHCP is, if I'm not mistaken, a relic of a bygone
>>dialup age.
> 
> 
> No dhcp is a protocol for assigning IP addresses on ethernet networks (perhaps 
> others?), it is far from obsolete.  Never heard of it being used with dialup 
> but who knows.

It certainly works on token ring.

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