[GLLUG] IPv6 addresses

[Iain M Conochie]

<snip>
> Back in the days of dial-up, providing a fixed IP address was quite
> a 
> hard problem to solve, given that each time you dialled in you
> almost 
> certainly came in on a different modem/port.  Most ISPs simply
> assigned 
> an IP address to each port and thus that's what you got.  Demon went
> to 
> a lot of trouble to switch the routing around for each customer and
> thus 
> give you a static address.
> 

I had a colleague in the early 00's who worked at Demon in the late
90's, who said they called it BURP - Bloody Useless Routing Protocol!

Cheers

Iain