Static IP options for Fusion

[rnovak]

Fair enough... thanks for the quick response.

I just saw talk of the single IP option on other sections of the forums... and found the firewall/arp discussion. So I'll ponder the layout at home and wait for the 4-IP option

[chezoxford]

Tamino,

I currently have this unholy amalgam of real IPs and NAT, which means only some of my computers can talk to my printer, and whether or not a guest in my house is able to get a DHCP lease depends on how many devices are currently connected to the NAT side versus the real side. It's not pretty.

Assuming you don't need all of your hosts (e.g., the printers) to be accessible externally, this can be done, albeit with more difficulty than I would personally like. The trick is to put everything behind your firewall, use 1::1 NAT for the external addresses, so internally everything has an internal address. The only thing that makes this hard is that that Sonic doesn't allow Proxy ARP ("for security reasons") so you have to cheat on that. See my post on this forum at viewtopic.php?f=10&t=120 for a description of that (note the link to my personal blog, where I gave the details).

eric

[Guest]

We will soon be offering 1-IP and 4-IP bridged subnets in addition to the current 8-IP offering. This will lower the costs of static IPs substantially.

We have no plans for routed subnets on Fusion.

-Dane

How will you be announcing this? Awaiting anxiously.

[dane]

When 4-IP and 1-IP static options are live, we will post here, the system messages (which gateways to twitter @sonicnet) and then finally email all current customers (unless they have asked for no email from us.)

-Dane

[augie]

And Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sonicnet/23977841877

[dane]

This item is complete!

4-IP and 1-IP subnets are now available in the Member Tools, under Internet Connections -> Fusion -> IP Configuration

Business:
8-IP: $40 (this is what we've been offering, and on a $49.95 Fusion it's rather expensive)
4-IP: $20 (new)
1-IP: $10 (new)

Residential:
8-IP: $20 (existing)
4-IP: $10 (new)
1-IP: FREE! (new)

This last bit is the exciting part - Fusion residential now includes free optional single-static IP!

Please note that free Fusion features are not generally supported by our call center, so if you've got questions on static IP setup, please post here in the forums.

[jmunowitch]

Just set mine up. Thanks!

Side note that I noticed, you have to set your Router/Computer settings for static IP instead of DHCP.

[dane]

Yup, it's a static IP, no DHCP. We used to offer our statics via DHCP on the old ATT platform, but that confounds some customers, and is also a scaling challenge for us. On Fusion, statics are not served up in DHCP.

-Dane

[wa2ibm]

Fantastic!

Now, I have to figure out how to convert my remote location from 8 statics to one without having to physically go there. Right now, the router is configured for static IP's with no DHCP, as you note above.

If I go to member tools and change to one static from 8, does it tell me before or after the network is reconfigured what my new IP will be? If before, then I can take the new information, connect to my router remotely via the old IP and reconfigure the router and disconnect. Once the Sonic end changes, it should come back online under the new IP. If the Sonic routers change before I get a chance to change my router, then I'll have to physically go there to reconfigure.

Hmmmm. Suggestions?

[jrostkow]

Thanks Dane. This should make it much easier to convince my business to go with fusion.