In article <41t8mvkc1fumeej5aijk4pln9dauna01de@4ax.com>,
Roger Halstead  <newsgroups@rogerhalstead.com> wrote:

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:43:01 -0000, gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston)
wrote:

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Go to http://www.arin.net/ (the American Registry for Internet Numbers),
enter "sbc" in the search box, and look at the pages and pages of ranges 
that come back. They have a lot more than four Class B blocks.

You are lucky,

Not me, I'm still on dialup. Hope to change that in a month or so, as
DSL is _finally_ available...
 

Many cable companies are using static IPs for their customers.  IF the
box uses DHCP it is often only for the computers attached and they can
change, but over a limited range depending on where the range is set.
Those addresses, being internal (isolated from the service by the
"box" can be virtually anything set within the limits of DHCP and you
can change the limits of DHCP on some boxes.

With 4 computers it only took about one minute to get the thing to
reassign the computer IPs.

I'm now using ADSL and it works much the same...just a different
router.

Yes, that's a fairly conventional setup. However, static address are
a good thing if you want to run any servers accessible from elsewhere,
like I do.

I'll be paying extra (Small Business service, $85/mo) for a single
static IP address provided by my ISP--however, I won't be running DHCP
inside my router. I want the static external address so I can have 
routing set up to my registered Class C address block, which is the
address space I'll be using inside my firewall/router setup. Then,
I'll get my domain routed there as well, and fulfill my destiny as
a true computer geek.   :-)


Gary

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