Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-42,: Re: Static v Dynamic IP on dial-up?

# Re: Static v Dynamic IP on dial-up?

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:34:02 -0400 (EDT)

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On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Riley Williams wrote:

> > 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...
>
> With the same ISP, when we switched to dynamic IP's, everything
> started working as it's supposed to...

No, ISPs with decent hardware support load sharing on static IP just
fine.. I used to do it with EQL to a PM over analog all the time before I
got ISDN.

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