Tom, Tom Metro <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm looking to switch to a different ISP for a home office setup, and > one of the last details to get figured out is the static IP setup. I > have a single static IPv4 address with my current provider. The new > provider seems to want what I think is excessive to rent a single IP. > Furthermore, I have a class C that I'd like to be able to leverage, and > I like the idea of tunneling out past the ISP to some cloud termination > point so I'll have the flexibility to switch ISPs for the last mile > (either short term during an outage, or long term) without disrupting my > static IP setup. > > Prior research turned up that HE (https://tunnelbroker.net/) offers this > type of service for free, but IPv6 only, and locally Cambridge Bandwidth > Consortium (CBC, http://www.cambridge.bandwidth-consortium.us/) does this. I've been a CBC member since it began, starting as a T1 customer with a backup v4 tunnel (routing my class C) to using a tunnel full time. It's a good group of people, but it's a co-op so don't expect high levels of "customer service" -- it's all generally volunteer effort. But once stuff gets configured you rarely need to change it. NOTE, however, that if you have a dynamic IP address then CBC might not necessarily be the right solution currently; there is no automated "repoint my endpoint" process so if you get renumbered you need to manually adjust the tunnel. > (The chart here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IPv6_tunnel_brokers says HE > supports BGP peering. I wonder if that means I can announce an IPv4 route?) > > I'm looking for recommendations for other providers. That could be an > business ISP that does GRE tunnel termination, or a business-class VPN > service that will advertise routes to customer supplied IPs. A plan B > solution would be a cloud VM, though those typically don't support > customer supplied IPs. > > -Tom -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [email protected] PGP key available _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
