how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread David Banning
I just spoke with my DSL supplier and they said that they could give me 5 IP addresses with a DSL line. I am used to only one IP address per phone line - how are the other IP addresses from the same DSL line utlilized and routed to different servers?

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread Eric
David Banning wrote: I just spoke with my DSL supplier and they said that they could give me 5 IP addresses with a DSL line. I am used to only one IP address per phone line - how are the other IP addresses from the same DSL line utlilized and routed to different servers? one per phone

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:40 AM, David Banning wrote: I just spoke with my DSL supplier and they said that they could give me 5 IP addresses with a DSL line. I am used to only one IP address per phone line - how are the other IP addresses from the same DSL line utlilized and routed to different

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread NetOpsCenter
Eric wrote: David Banning wrote: I just spoke with my DSL supplier and they said that they could give me 5 IP addresses with a DSL line. I am used to only one IP address per phone line - how are the other IP addresses from the same DSL line utlilized and routed to different servers? one

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread David Banning
Connect the DSL modem to a switch or hub, and connect several machines to that, each configured statically to use the /29 subnet which your ISP is making available to you. This is assuming your DSL modem deals with any PPPoE/PPPoA login stuff itself...if not, you might have to get a

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2007, at 11:47 AM, David Banning wrote: Connect the DSL modem to a switch or hub, and connect several machines to that, each configured statically to use the /29 subnet which your ISP is making available to you. This is assuming your DSL modem deals with any PPPoE/PPPoA login stuff

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread Derek Ragona
You can bring up multiple IP's on the same NIC on the same server if you would like to do that. You simply add lines to /etc/rc.conf to add aliases. ifconfig_dc0_alias1=###.###.###.### netmask 0x The NIC device name should be used in the alias. -Derek At 11:40 AM 3/23/2007,