XPost: alt.comp.networking.routers, uk.telecom.broadband
From: russell@fredswedlock.co.uk
On 22/02/2019 01:30, Char Jackson wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:19:23 +0000, Abandoned Trolley
> wrote:
>
>> On 21/02/2019 20:12, Graham J wrote:
>>> Abandoned Trolley wrote:
>>>> On 21/02/2019 09:36, Nick Leverton wrote:
>>>>> In article ,
>>>>> Abandoned Trolley wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> hi there
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If there's anybody out there using the TalkTalk business service on
>>>>>> VDSL
>>>>>> with MORE THAN ONE static IP address, then I would be interested to
>>>>>> hear
>>>>>> from you if you have managed to separate them in any way using the
>>>>>> supplied "super" router - which appears to be a Huawei HG635 with
>>>>>> custom
>>>>>> firmware.
>>>>>
>>>>> Few if any ISP supplied routers seem to recognise in their GUIs that
>>>>> one might have more than one external IP address. Usually it would need
>>>>> command line configuration of the firewall, via telnet or ssh. I gather
>>>>> though that the Talktalk Business router has different firmware from
>>>>> their
>>>>> domestic ones. Searching suggests there are uploadable configurations
>>>>> for the domestic ones to enable ssh access, but it wasn't clear whether
>>>>> they also worked on the business firmware.
>>>>>
>>>>> You've probably tried already, but does their business support line
>>>>> have sufficient clue to help ? Surely someone else must have asked them
>>>>> how to do this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nick
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a particular reason for not wishing to contact the ISP about
>>>> this issue for the time being, but ...
>>>>
>>>> I have to say that I am astonished at the difficulty in getting any
>>>> kind of sensible solution for this
>>>
>>>
>>> You're making a rod for your own back!
>>>
>>> Get a proper ISP and a sensible router - but then you specifically
>>> discounted that line of advice in your initial post.
>>>
>>> Begs the question - why?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I am open to any suggestions about any router which will actually do the
>> job ..
>
> Actually, you've also been vague about what "the job" is. You apparently
> have two servers on which you've configured publicly routable IPs, even
> though the two servers run completely different services. With what
> you've provided so far, a single routable IP would be fine and you'd
> steer traffic based on its destination port. Also, any run of the mill
> NAT router would then work.
>
> It seems, though, that there might be more to the story. Hence, the
> "vague" part.
>
>
>
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"or giving me a lecture about how I don't need the static IP addresses
in the first place then maybe you could give this one a miss" ...
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