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Please note all comments are from my own brain and don't necessarily represent the position or opinions of my employer, previous employers, colleagues, friends or pets.
Please note all comments are from my own brain and don't necessarily represent the position or opinions of my employer, previous employers, colleagues, friends or pets.
Zeon: Having a static IP would be nicer as you could then rely on it.
Please note all comments are from my own brain and don't necessarily represent the position or opinions of my employer, previous employers, colleagues, friends or pets.
ghettomaster: N - thanks for your reply. Good to know I wasn't too far off base. I had also wondered if it was simply to make management easier which it sounds like it is.
Now if you don't mind taking the time to divulge a little further there is something else I am trying to undersdtand. We had a customer where they had two DSL connections with the same ISP (Either Xtra or TelstraClear - I can't remember) - one in Auckland and one in Wellington - and they had configured both of their DSL routers to use the same username and password (don't ask me why). This worked fine until they requested a static IP address, at which point they started to have connectivity problems at both sites until we configured one of the routers to use another username and password.
What I struggle to get my head around is how the connection in Auckland managed to even work with an IP address that was intended for a Wellington connection. Obviously all DSL connections are not treated as one big LAN within the realm of their ISP due to the large amount MAC addresses, routing issues and security issues. Can you please give me an idea of what sort of routing arrangements are typically in place that would allow an IP to swap between cities so effortlessly?
Regards,
GM.
Please note all comments are from my own brain and don't necessarily represent the position or opinions of my employer, previous employers, colleagues, friends or pets.
sbiddle: A username and password isn't required on Telecom connections because they use port based authentication. You can enter anything you want and it will work. A username and password is required (or at least was 18 months or so ago when I last dealt with an issue relating to this) if you wish to have a static IP, so clearly two connections with the same details would cause problems.
There are other ISP's also using port based authentication also.
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