I know you probably won't want to go through the hasle of switching ISP's but cloud9 will give you up to 32 IP's so you might be able to avoid NAT altogether. It's $60 for the basic network service with up to 32 IP's, assigned in sizes of 1+NAT, 2, 4, 8, 16, & 32 depending on your needs.
-- Daniel <<You cant eat before a operashun. Not even cheese.>> -- Charlie Gordon On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Seth Rothenberg wrote: ] ]One of my neighbors asked if we could give him ]a static IP (i.e., across the wireless LAN). ]In Corporate VPN terms, that means ]a real Internet IP address, not NAT'd or ]Firewalled. I had 2 ideas how to do it, ]and wondered if anyone has experience. ] ]1) VPN. Still don't know much about VPN, ]but I imagine I could use creative netmasks ]to subnet my ISP's space, allowing some of ]my segments to have "real" IP addresses, but ]only routing the ones that my ISP gave to me. ](I have done similar things in Solaris). ] ]2) This one knocked me out when I thought ]of it, but don't know if it can work. ]What if I use static NAT'ing.... ]eg 128.2.3.44-NAT->192.168.1.44 ((my cloud)) ]192.168.1.1---routed to---192.168.56.1 ](last link) ]192.168.56.44<<--NAT-->>128.2.3.44 ]This is oversimplified, but NAT-aware people ]will get it and will affirm or reject my idea. ]Thanks ]Seth ] ] ] ] ] ]-- ]NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ ]Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ ]Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ ] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
