Re: Ignorant mass-media strikes again

[jzeeff () verio net (Jon Zeeff)]

Is there equipment that, short of a fixed ip, tries to reassign the same
ip back to the same user?  Ie, puts the ip address in a fifo but pulls it
out early if it's the same user calling back.

> > I bet Ms. Thorton never heard that TCP can preserve idle connections
> > when dial-up link is down.  Yeah, dial-on-demand is such a hard thing
> > to do!
>
> Well, yes.  But if you're on a dynamic IP, good luck at getting the 
> answers to your packets when you call up and are assigned a new IP.