On 10/1/07, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 11:51:05PM -0400, Jacques B. wrote: > > Easier yet, which package do you have with them? I just checked their > > site and some only provide one static IP. One of the home packages > > provides 8 static IPs (it's their new services, ADSL2 Link). All > > other home packages only provide 1 static IP. Unless they used to > > provide more and customers who were with them when they did got grand > > fathered in. They may have done that for a while but withdrew it when > > They used to have a variety of other packages offering 2, 4, or an arbitrary > (pay a few bucks per extra) number. The question still remains if they are still doing that for longtime customers or if they've been moved to the new home DSL package with just one IP. > > > they needed the IPs. I don't know what IP ranges they have. If only > > the one in the range you provided, according to checkdomain.com the > > range that they have would only give them 2040 IPs. At 2 per customer > > that would mean only 1020 customers could be accommodated at one time. > > They're a national DSL provider. I think it's safe to say that they've got a > few more than 1020 customers. > I didn't think that they'd only have that many (Iknow for example that my last ISP had a variety of ranges of IPs no doubt acquiring blocks as their needs grew, or perhaps through the acquisition of smaller ISPs). You would not be able to sustain the necessary revenues as an ISP with only that many IPs unless you started providing your customers with internal IP #s. I was simply throwing that out as part of my point that they have a fixed # of IPs. So with business growing they have to limit the # of static IPs being given out to their customers in order to ensure a certain level of service availability for all. Hence why it is possible that they may have offered more IPs at one time to all customers but have had to scale that back as more people became customers. Not to mention home network with NAT have become more common thus eliminating the need for more than one public IPs for the majority of home clients using a gateway/router. I'm starting to drift off here so back to the OP's problem. We need to assertain with certainty that his ISP is still providing him more than one public IP. Based on the description of his problem it could be coincidental that his problem started when he changed hardware while the real cause is the change in static IP allocation by his ISP provider. That may not be the case. But the symptoms could easily fit that scenario hence we need to rule it out. No amount of troubleshooting at the host end will resolve the OP's problem if that is what is happening. We may be spinning our wheels for nothing. Or not, but let's eliminate the factor that we cannot control as being the cause. Jacques B.
