On 29/07/20 00:18, james wrote: > It's the bandwidth provider's policy. Static IPs (4 or 6) requires a > monthly fee. If you know a way around this, with full privileges one > gets with static IP addresses, I'm all ears.....?
????? I can understand a fee for a static IP4 - they've run out, after all, and people are fighting over them ... Don't ISPs get a 2^64 allocation of IP6 *network* addresses? They should just allocate one to your router and that's that! Still, I wouldn't put it past them to charge extra for what should be free. > > I do not want some limited/dysfunctional solution. I want/need the full > ability of what static IPs addresses bring. (all ports open etc). That's not what a static IP brings, that's what a "globally known" IP brings - if your router advertises its address to something like dyndns every time it starts, you'll have the same result. Snag is, that's a chargeable subscription, I believe. > > I am curious about your details via IPv6 and static (permanently > assigned ) addresses. That's why I need to dig and investigate :-) My first ISP in the days of dial-up allocated a static IP as a matter of course. Not only was it useful to use, it suited them because customers could only use it on one computer at a time otherwise routing got screwed up :-) Then we went to broadband, and in effect it was static because the modem/router was always on ... It'll be interesting digging through all this. Just try and make sure you use your router as a firewall. I think my router drops all incoming connections BY DEFAULT. But I can open up any port I want, either to re-route to an internal computer or just pass through to it. My first investigations would be (1) how do I advertise my router's network address on dyndns, and (2) once the outside world knows my IP, how do I let stuff through my router/firewall. Cheers, Wol
