> On 1 Jun 99, at 8:24, Kit Mitchell wrote:
>
> > _An_ explanation for IP changes has certainly been given but there are a
> > couple of points I seem to either misunderstand or not follow. The MAC
> > address should be the physical address of the network device e.g a
> > network card. The modem DSL/ATM interface lacks a physical address. So
> > it would seem that the storing physical addresses to match to IPs is not
> > what happens.

The modem DSL/ATM interface is at the end of aphysical point to point link
to a card in the DSLAM. That Card in the DSLAM must have a unque static
 address for each port otherwise?. If it does I guess that would be the mac
address.

>
> Yes, that was my understanding of the explanation. Why the matching
> cannot be stored is interesting.
What explanation? Have I missed an explanation? Are you talking about the
meeting?
>
> > Address assignment seems to me to be likely to be via PPP as that is
> > part of what PPP can do I thought.
>
> My understanding as well.
Hmmm I had a statis IP years ago on a dialup that used PPP - no mac
addresses on dialup. It was a while ago I guess PPP must have broke
since then.
 
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