said by MrMazda86:What surprises me is that nobody at TSI has been able to respond with the actual answer. As for there not being a "virtual link", you clearly have never run a static subnet before because... that's got to be the biggest load of rubbish I've ever heard.
Wrong. For the purposes of our discussion, there's just the PPP relay running between two devices, which is a "logical link" not a "virtual link". There's no difference in the PPP link whether you have a static address/subnet or a dynamically-assigned address; PPP doesn't care what is traversing that link, it just encapsulates it. The routing tables are set at either end to route traffic properly for a specific subnet, and the default gateway of the CPE would be the router on the other end of the PPP link. You can set any arbitrary IP addresses you want on either side of the PPP link, but that doesn't mean they'll be routable.
Also I'm pretty sure you've heard more outlandish things in your life, so "biggest load of rubbish" may be a slight overstatement.
said by MrMazda86:As for IPv6, that's a whole separate ball of wax completely from the issue that I'm inquiring on. IPv6 has nothing to do with what I'm inquiring on.
Neither does IPv4. What you're inquiring about is a policy related to the handling of AAA (specifically the second "A") based on whether or not a customer has a static subnet allocated to them. Obviously, you can't practically assign the same (in this case, static) IP to two separate stub networks, so they're only allowing one PPP relay to be established to prevent this from happening. Again, nothing to do with IPv6
or IPv4! It's all AAA!
said by MrMazda86:In fact, an IPv6 login is just that... IPv6 ONLY! It too is a whole separate service with a whole separate purpose, which will not allow for what I'm inquiring about.
Also wrong. IPv6 logins aren't IPv6-only, and you prove your ignorance by saying so. It's not a "whole separate service with a whole separate purpose", although you are correct that it won't solve the issue you're talking about here.
I know exactly the "issue" you're talking about, but you're being really belligerent when people are honestly trying to help you out. To get a direct answer from TSI, you should ask one of them either over the phone or in the direct forum as I'm sure they'd be able to help you out there, and let you know whether you can have a separate login with a dynamic IP for testing purposes. Also, let's not forget that test@test/test was designed for, well,
testing (not that the credentials imply that or anything
), so I'd imagine that's probably they answer they'll give you.