Broadband Tech > General Questions > What equipment provided for multiple static IP setup

reply to nwrickert

Re: What equipment provided for multiple static IP setup

I don't personally have static IPs. However, I have heard from others that it works with the public LAN settings available on the 327w and 6100 (probably also on 7500). There was a post by someone with a Westell modem (I think 327w) using Century Tel, given a block of IPs assigned over PPPoE, and told by his ISP to use the public LAN settings.

You might want to also look at this FAQ
»AT&T Midwest/Ameritech FAQ »SBC/Ameritech 5 Static IP-Compatible Routers (update 05-19-06)
That's for AT&T users, but will probably give you useful information about this way of assigning static IPs.

With that VT location, I'm guessing you are with Fairpoint, in what was previously Verizon territory.
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Thanks for the FAQ link.
You are correct I have recently been switched over to fairpoint. It has been 3 weeks since they have supposedly activated my 5 static IP addresses and each day I have less and less confidence that they know what they are doing.

I am actually hoping to use my OSX server with IPAliases to manage a (I believe) bridged connection for each IP. The doc they provide shows using routed bridge but I have doubts regarding that configuration unless I setup separate VC for each address.

If you are getting these over PPPoE, then you will need a router or modem/router that knows how to handle a static block over PPPoE.

It is also possible in linux, so possibly in OSX. But you would have to run your own PPPoE client on that unix system. It will probably be easier to pick up a suitable router or modem/router.
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