In message <clgjgqw4yhtnf...@perry.co.uk>, Roland Perry writes: > But NAT does have the useful (I think) side effect that I don't have to > renumber my network when I change upstream providers - whether that's > once every five years like I just did with my ADSL, or once every time > the new ADSL hiccups[1] now that I have a CPE with 3G failover. > > [1] Seems to be about weekly, so far. > -- > Roland Perry
And that can be pretty much automated these days. Windows boxes if you let them will just register their new addresses in the DNS. MacOS also has the ability to do this as well. You should be asking the other vendors for similar support. Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
