From: John Cuccia 

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 10:30:46 -0500, Mike '/m'  wrote:

>>Bellsouth doesn't trust me that much, it'll only issue an IP address
>>to a single MAC address, which I registered with them
>
>What do you mean by "register".  My ISP's DHCP server continues to
>give me the same IP address so long as I maintain the same MAC
>address.  If I swap out the NIC, I'll get a different IP address.  No
>interaction is required with the ISP for that to occur.

If I swap out the NIC, I can't get a config from the DHCP server.

>Some ISPs require you to call them and give them the MAC address, and
>then they config the DHCP server to respond only to that MAC address
>for you.

Yep, that's exactly what I mean by "register".

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