It's perhaps worth noting here, that if you FIOS home service (as
opposed to business), running a server is technically a violation of the
TOS.

Nick

Justin Walker wrote:
> You can get around the DHCP problem by simply setting your 'server'
> machines to static IPs sufficiently high in the range that they won't
> get messed with (IE 192.168.1.200 and 201).  However, you will
> definitely need to get access to the router to open ports.
> I don't think it's at all unreasonable to ask for login access to your
> router.  They may be unwilling to open ports - many ISPs block them
> from their end, but it never hurts to ask.
>
> - Justin
>
> Charles Cranston wrote:
>> I've had two friends move in with me this weekend (long story, they
>> lost their lease suddenly and unexpectedly) into a 4 bedroom
>> single-family house in Burtonsville.  They had Verizon networking and
>> were adamant about bringing it with them, and I was none too happy
>> with Comcast networking and video (lots of problems, another story),
>> so I was not that unhappy when we snipped the Comcast wires and
>> brought in FIOS.
>>
>> There is an ONT (Optical Network Terminal) which is connected to a
>> branched coaxial cable that feeds the three set-top video boxes and
>> one modem-router-switch-wireless-access-point unit.  The router will
>> service DHCP to all my wireless machines and the two "server"
>> (desktop) machines I have plugged into their switch.
>>
>> However, under Comcast I had access to the router (I owned the modem
>> and a Linksys BEF4W11 something like that).  I had it serve DHCP
>> addresses starting at 64 (192.168.1.64 and up) and reserved lower
>> addresses for my server machines, I had the Macintosh on 192.168.1.2
>> and the Linux machine on 192.168.1.3 and everything was well.
>>
>> I don't have access to the FIOS configuration setup.  My friends are
>> not technical people, so they don't know what I'm talking about, and
>> the service is not in my name, so it's not clear how I ask Verizon
>> about changing this situation.  Does anybody have any experience with
>> Verizon FIOS networks with hardware like this?  Is i reasonable for
>> me to ask for access to the router setup?  I'd like to reserve a
>> small number of fixed IP addresses at the bottom, and open at least
>> one port from the outside world (I had 3 before, one for X, one for
>> FTP, and one for a Macintosh remote-management-access protocol,
>> and I'd like to at least have that third one reinstated)?


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