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If ya don't stay with Digizip/Covad what are you gonna do?

I just bailed.. Ordered Speakeasy for 5 REAL IPs.

Speakeasy is a Covad reseller - there's a good chance you're going to end up with an identical package. Take a look-see at the posting I just put up in the "Anyone Having any luck" thread - maybe that would help clarify things?

Thanks.. I checked.. Speakeasy assures me it is 5 REAL STATIC IP's. Just like I had with digizp/MCI. No PPPoE, etc.

Out of curiosity, why the resistance to a PPPoE connection? Admittedly this is only my perspective, but the end result that I see is I have 5 routable IPs for use, just like I had with MCI. I'm not a gamer, so if there's a latency or other severe performance hit associated with PPPoE I probably wouldn't see it.

Ok.. with MCI, I came out of the router to a hub. From the hub I went to a NETGEAR VPN router to run my Office VOIP Phone and LAN for my office pc. Also from the hub I ran to my SMC wireless router and wired pc's. Within the SMC I router REAL IP's to whichever PC I wanted to have them. I could then remote in via VNC or PC anywhere (Even though I like logmein.com FREE too). If a friend came over and wanted to get on my wifi, I have him my codes and he logged on and the smc gave him an internal 192.168.xx.xxx address.

Under the New COVAD equipment I can't do that. Also.. the Netopia gives out LAN addresses that are my other STATICS rather than internals. I guess I coulda put the netopia in bridge mode and re-done everything.. but that and the india support line drove me to speakeasy

I'm not familiar with any of that kit (Netscreens and ciscos at the office, homemade FBSD firewall/NAT box here), but I'm not clear on why you can't duplicate the functionality you had previously. If the LAN side of the Netopia is plugged into a hub/switch, there are 5 static IPs available for anything else on that hub/switch. Had you done some hackery on the old MCI provided gear to make things work the way you needed?

I only know enough to be dangerous. It worked before very well.. and this switch threw a wrench in the works with my vpn tunnel and my remore access to my pc's. I never had to tamper with the mci router. Ed

reply to chunkhead
I also don't see why the covad routers (briteport/netopia) can't do what the Cisco678 can do. I had a 4-port hub in uplink mode with crossover wire to the cisco678, one port for the dsl router and 3 open ports on the hub for static ips.

With my new Briteport 8120, I first had lan ips and dhcp setup by default. Each pc on hub got their own lan ip but they can't reach the internet because it's trying to run on the dsl router's "dhcp'd covad network ip." With this setup, you can only do dns and traceroute within covad's routing. Then I set my real static ips into the lan ip settings for the dsl router. It worked fine like that, each pc on the hub got it's own real ip delegated by the dsl router and only the hub is connected to the dsl router. And after disabling dhcp, each pc can set their own static ip while connected on the hub.

FlyboyEd , are you using the same crossover wire that came with the cisco678? What "other STATICS rather than internals" are you talking about? As far as I know, the dsl router gets two ips, one is a dhcp ip that's only reachable in covad routing network and another one that makes it the gateway ip for your static ips. Your static ip settings should be entered into your lan settings on the dsl router.

reply to chunkhead
The resistance over Pppoe is it's HELL trying to use your own router like a Dlink DI-624 with it.

reply to FlyboyEd
PPPOE sucks! It's nothing like a real static IP. I want the Netopia in bridge mode with my own router/firewall, and static IPs. Anything less eats shit.

Yesterday was my first day back on REAL static IP's with Speakeasy/Covad. Mand what a difference.. Everything works.

Ed

Hey FlyboyEd, how much you paying? What speed you getting? Do you have a true bridged ATM connection with static IPs, or just a variant of the Covad DHCP PPPOE connection? What router are you using?

I am gonna have to pay 59.95 for 1.5/384 but real IPs. I am just ising the modem they sent me.. didnt even look at the name

reply to ross
I'll agree there's something weird, but I'm not sure what it is. After I configured the Covad-supplied modem all I needed to do was change the IP on the external interface of my firewall and I was up and running.

Same here. In fact, I removed a hub since the netopia has 4 ports. The only change I needed on my firewall was the IP address. To it, the connection still looks like a static address.