On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Niels Bakker wrote:
[E.B. Dreger writes]
Assign unchanging IP address based on MAC address. Done/done.
* alex@yuriev.com (alex@yuriev.com) [Sat 02 Aug 2003, 20:28 CEST]:
And quadrupple your techsupport costs? Thanks, but no thanks.
For always assigning the same IP address to a customer? Why would this increase support costs?
especially done via dhcp... you could probably even automate getting new ips from a dynamic pool and slapping them into permanent assignments.
Rubbish. If you do that, you lose all the benefits. Also, when a customer's son/daugter/computer-expert-from-chubb-institute-friend does something and it breaks your lovely system you will not just increase your tech support costs, but also will lose the customer. Alex