[aklug] Re: GCI and two IP Addresses

Yes! Thanks for the info. I'll give them a call tomorrow and have
everything switched over.

Just so you all know I'm using IPCop. I just got new hardware. Well,
sort of. I've had it for a while but I never used it. Had to send it in
last week because a port was bad. I'll start another post with more info.

Alan C. wrote:
> Nope, not true. You can have several addresses with a single MAC on
> the cable modem network.
>
> I spent a number of years with 4 Static IP Addresses at my house on
> the same device/same MAC on a PIX 501 firewall.
>
> About two, maybe three years ago there was a bug where you could not
> assign multiple statics to the same MAC address but that was rectified
> within a few months of being identified (they had a work-around for
> the few people doing it). I just bumped down to one static within the
> last month. Now that I relinquished my four addresses I run a single
> static and one DHCP address at my house without issue.
>
> DHCP is optional as long as you are willing to hard-code addresses,
> there is no magic on the back end forcing you to use DHCP in order to
> egress the cable modem network.
>
> Just hard-code your router for the static addresses and the related
> information. The DHCP server won't hand out multiple addresses to the
> same MAC but by statically assigning them it should work just fine.
> The trick is to make sure you use the right default gateway, subnet
> mask, etc..
>
> -Alan
>
> On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Damien Hull wrote:
>
>> I just got off the phone with GCI. Here's my situation.
>>
>> * Two domains
>> o two different static addresses
>> * Two routers
>> o One static addresses for each router
>>
>> I would like to trim this down to one router/firewall. IPCop allows for
>> an alias. However, the tech I was talking to said I can't have two
>> addresses on the same router. Something about the GCI setup won't work
>> that way.
>>
>> Is this true?
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