Fixed IP for outgoing use

[realist]

I need to provide a fixed IP address to a company before they will grant me FTP access to their server which is behind a firewall.

Is this possible if I use ADSL to connect to the web?

Thanks

 

[martin]

Check out these two topics:

http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=170
http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=86

Also do a search on the forums for "static IP". There is quite a bit of info posted on the subject in the forums.

Hope that helps! []

 

[Vie]

Unfortunately I'm in the same boat as realist on this one. We have to connect out to external database servers, and as such the network administrators have set up the firewall to only allow specific IP addresses through. Bit of a problem when you're assigned a dynamic IP every few hours, so this is impossible. All of those dynamic IP hosts offer a one way DNS service for you, such that anyone trying to get to you can always find the dynamic host, they do NOT offer any static IP functionality.

The only way we've managed to get around this problem, is by having a modem and a standard 56k dialup with static IP option. We dial up whenever we need to connect up, and disconnect when done. Have set up the machine (Windows2000 Server) with the modem with Routing and Remote Access, and have added a static route. I changed the 0.0.0.0 metric to 2, and added the specific IP we connect to as metric 1.

There isn't any real way of getting around this one I'm afraid.

 

[martin]

I see... that is a bit of a problem! [xx(]

 

[grubman]

have a look at the megalan ( http://www.megalan.co.za ) PPTP option. The 128k provides a static IP.

So megalan ( savage ), do I get a bit of a discount for this ???

 

[savage]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by grubman</i>
<br />have a look at the megalan ( http://www.megalan.co.za ) PPTP option. The 128k provides a static IP.

So megalan ( savage ), do I get a bit of a discount for this ???
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Posibly.