From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:12:51 -0800, Jeff Shultz
 wrote:

>John Cuccia wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:53:53 -0600, David N. Barnett
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 07:30:29 -0500, Mike '/m'
 wrote
>>>in message :
>>>
>>>| 1) Does your DSL use DHCP?  I suspect that dialup does not, so that is
>>>| one difference between the two scenarios.
>>>
>>>Yes, I'm one of the lucky few early-adopters left in my area who still
>>>has DHCP instead of PPPoE.
>>
>> Me too.
>
>RFC1483 Bridged Ethernet + static IP's is a sign your ISP trusts you. (it's
>what we use).

Bellsouth doesn't trust me that much, it'll only issue an IP address to a
single MAC address, which I registered with them

I'm leery of changing devices anymore; if I draw too much attention they
may decide to switch me to PPPoE.

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