XPost: alt.comp.networking.routers, uk.telecom.broadband
From: nobody@nowhere.co.uk
Abandoned Trolley wrote:
> 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" ...
>
He does need ONE static IP address, but for what he has described any
basic NAT router will be fine.
So we really do need to know why the OP has made these arbitrary
restrictions. Otherwise we're going to suggest a big Cisco router
running BGP and costing several £1000.
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Graham J
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