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Originally Posted by MysticLlama
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Verizon and Qwest DSL on the other hand often are set to bridge mode, so they just hand out IPs like candy to the remote network if you have stuff hooked to a switch first.
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Cablevision in NY used to be like that when they 1st rolled out broadband. You could hook a simple hub up to your cable modem and you were good to go with as many addresses as you wanted.
They used to try and bang you an additional $25 per IP address they handed out.
The service was spotty in the early days so you'd be on the phone with them a lot and the tech would mention that I had multiple devices which was not allowed.
I'd say no I don't, he'd say I can see all the addresses that have been allocated to you.
So I'd explain to him, as I disconnected all but one device form the hub, that I was aware that they flushed their caches manually and what he was seeing was the same device in my house getting a new address after a power cycle.
He'd get the cache flushed and only see one address again.