It's not a Cisco requirement to be in bridging mode for the static IP, it's a
US West thing. If you use another ISP, you could probably get a static IP in
bridging or PPP mode. From what I've gathered, I believe you can use other ISP's
for vDSL access but you will be paying out the ass for the full bandwidth that vDSL
handles.

Mike

Kevin Brown wrote:

> 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.
>
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