Huge wrote:
On 2012-09-04, Lobster wrote:
On 04/09/2012 12:47, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:08:20 +0100, Lobster wrote:

Once I'd sussed what was wrong - which took me long enough - I then had
to work out how to alter the fixed IP addresses on my devices; all
happening on a morning when I was frantically busy with (my freelance)
work; cost me a load of time and I suspect the delay may well have cost
me a client. Unbe-****ing-lievable.
Makes me wonder why people have business critical services provided at
"best endeavors" residential service levels.
Fair comment. But normally internet is not business-critical for my
work, and the Virginmedia offering has been perfectly OK for my needs
over 10+ years and I have never felt the need to go for a different
'business' service.

However, I will concede that I was totally caught out by VM's ability
and willingness to suddenly access and reconfigure my home network, for
example taking out my networked printer etc; ie it was a big mistake to
use their router - something which never occurred to me as being an issue.

Perhaps consider what I do; the only thing that talks to the ISP's router
is my Smoothwall. My network hides behind that, and it deals with DHCP,
DNS, proxying, NAT, banner ad filtering and likely half-a-dozen things
I've forgotten.

Yes, it means I do double-NAT, which offends some, but it all works just
fine.


I do all of that without a double NAT at all. The ONLY thing MY router
does is act as an ADSL modem and firewall It does DHCP yes, but its set
up the way I tell it to.

DNS, DHCP and firewall and NAT and passthru are all under my control.

All I ask of the ISP is that it assigns me a static IP address and
unlimited access to the internet. They are almost able to do that.
Everything else I do myself or through third party companies whose
business depends on what they do, and whose services I have full
configuration access to.



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