From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 5 18:26:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9AA316A41A for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@violetlan.net) Received: from mail.violetlan.net (ns2.violetlan.net [80.81.242.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C55313C468 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@violetlan.net) Received: from mail.violetlan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.violetlan.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A87A11439; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:21:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.violetlan.net (mbali.violetlan.net [10.0.100.150]) by mail.violetlan.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE3F1142B; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:21:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 217.45.165.129 (SquirrelMail authenticated user freebsd@violetlan.net) by www.violetlan.net with HTTP; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:24:32 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <50602.217.45.165.129.1202235872.squirrel@www.violetlan.net> In-Reply-To: <20080204170429.GF7685@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <1201922586.00019085.1201909804@10.7.7.3> <47A4FB57.40203@FreeBSD.org> <1256.89.240.61.114.1202062849.squirrel@www.violetlan.net> <47A60A10.80907@FreeBSD.org> <64255.217.45.165.129.1202123892.squirrel@www.violetlan.net> <20080204170429.GF7685@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 18:24:32 -0000 (GMT) From: "Reinhold" To: "Jerry McAllister" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: Alexander Motin , Reinhold , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mpd with a dual pppoe setup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:26:43 -0000 On Mon, February 4, 2008 17:04, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:18:12AM -0000, Reinhold wrote: > > >>> >>>>> If you are connecting to the ISP it would be better not to >>>>> specify IP to let them be negotiated. >>>> >>>> How will I go ahead and set the static ips for both my wan >>>> connections? >>>> >>> >>> If IPs are static then provider itself will negotiate them every time >>> same. If you will specify them and provider will request another, >>> negotiation will fail. So I would not recommend you to specify them. >>> >> >> Hi >> I spoke to our ISP today. I asked them if they can set one of my ips as >> the main ip that will be assigned every time I dail in and they told me >> no they can't do it because of some security thing on there side :-S >> >> Basicaly how they explained it to me is because I have 5 ips, when we >> dail in we get assigned a dynamic ip and on top of that I have to >> manually set the 5 ips to what ever services I would like them to be >> used for. If I want my WAN2 connection to use one of the 5 ips I have to >> manually set it so that all my out going connections will be using that >> ip. > > Your ISP CAN do this. They just won't because they don't want to make it > easy for you to run a server. They want to suppress your use. You > might check with other ISPs or twist their arm more, or get a little more > sophisticated by letting DHCP set the IPs and have your domain registered > through one of the nameserver services that will allow you to reset the > info each time you boot. Then, there are some utilities you can get to > check what IP got set and then notify that nameserver service. > > I don't remember offhand the names of any of those services or the > utilities you can use to talk to them, but there are several and you can > just do a little searching for them. > > ////jerry Hi, I phoned them again, the first guy I spoke to didn't know what I wanted so after telling him to get me someone that I can talk to I was finally told that BT, our ISP does not support setting a static ip to a dsl line if you have 5 ips but, they do it when you have only 1 ip address. Weird I know. The guy then told me that if I need this type of support that I will have to go and find another ISP that does support this. How nice of them to tell me that. So I'm left with 5 ips that I need to some how set so that I can use them. Any help will be greatly apreasiated to get this working Regards Reinhold