Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:53:25 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Static v Dynamic IP on dial-up? |
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Hi!
> >> 1. Having a dial-up with static IP means that one can only have one > >> link in use at a time, thus the EQL driver serves no purpose in > >> this situation. This can on occasion be a serious handicap. > > > Only if the ISP end doesn't support it. If the ISP end supports > > load-sharing over multiple interfaces, there should be no problem. > > My experience (with an ISP that explicitly allows multi-connects) has > been that wish static IP's, as soon as the second modem is > authenticated, both drop because of protocol violations connected with > having duplicated IP's...
Well, you'd have to have _2 or more_ static IPs assigned :-).
> With the same ISP, when we switched to dynamic IP's, everything > started working as it's supposed to...
Pavel
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