VDSL April 5th!

[Kevin Brown]

I haven't seen the Vdsl boxes, but for the Cisco 675 box you don't have to be in
bridging mode to have a static IP.  It is possible to login to the router and
through NAT redirect some of the ports to a box inside or elsewhere for http,
ftp, telnet, etc...

> ? However, xDSL uses dynamic ips. I don't know of any way around this
> ? problem, except if
> ? I worked @ uswest as a sysadmin I could push the ip into the dns servers
> ? everytime the ip
> ? changes. However, I don't have that luxury :P   Has anyone had a similar
> ? situation or does
> ? anyone know of a solution?  Is it possible to keep the ips and have 1
> ? box on the network use
> ? the ip I use for my web server?  Any help is greatly appreciated!
> ? Thanks in advance.

> DSL doesn't use Dynamic IP's... your ISP does. You can purchase static IP's
> from US West (you have to be bridged instead of a ppp connect) or you can
> use another provider  and just use US West as the carrier. If you're
> running vDSL, you will probably want to stay with uswest.net though because
> you'll get screwed on the bandwidth charges from other ISP's if you want to
> take full advantage of vDSL's capabilities.