RE: BB choice & multiple static IP addresses

["Ian Willoughby" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,
With the likes of Zens 8 Static IP's for free (1 used for network address,
1 for broadcast and one for your router leaves 5 usable for other things)
why wouldn't you? You could use port forwarding to various devices but this
will mean addressing things is not quite so logical e.g tivo might be
referenced as mydomain.com:81 and HA server might be mydomain.com:82. I
find it a lot nicer to address them as tivo.mydomain.com <mailto:tivo@xxxxxxx>  or ha.mydomain.com.
I have a router with openish access to my servers, email, web etc (this is
commenly called a DMZ). There is a second router running on the DMZ which
has NAT and I hang all my workstations and laptops off of this.
I am planning on hanging VOIP gateways on the DMZ side of the network in
the very near future.

Hope this helps

R's
Ian


-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Towers [mailto:nickt@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thu 08/05/2003 12:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: [ukha_d] BB choice & multiple static IP addresses



Help please!
Am figuring out which BB ISP to use - my dilemma is whether I need to
sign up for multiple static IP addresses.
I'd like to be able to access remotely - at moment just to control
Tivo and view a security Webcam. In future I may decide to work from
home & need remote access from other locations to a work server &
applications etc.
I'll almost certainly buy a Draytek 2600we (unless I get better
recommendation) which I assume will need an IP address of its own - I
assume I'd be able to access LAN based devices via port forwarding -
is this the case?
So - for my immediate needs would I be ok with just a single static
address - and for what other uses in the future would I definitely
need further IP addresses?
TIA
Nick
PS I'm looking at F2S, Eclipse & Zen as possible suppliers