[Request] Static IP addresses for 10G customers
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:13 am
I know construction is underway for 10G fiber provided by Sonic. Please consider offering one or more static IP's to go with it. Thanks.
It's something we've long had requests for, but we've not done to date it for a few reasons:dearscott wrote:I know construction is underway for 10G fiber provided by Sonic. Please consider offering one or more static IP's to go with it. Thanks.
Not sure what you consider odd (a protocol that does not support dynamic addresses or caring about having a redundant connection), but here is a link to FreeBSD’s CARP documentation if you are interested: https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-conten ... i_CARP.pdf
It is kind of funny that the first part of your post contradicts the second half. Just as the requirement for Static IP addresses has declined for other uses the requirement, DyDNS services make it just as easy to host services with Dynamic address as it is to host with a static address.dane wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 11:39 am Finally, and the most challenging: with the deployment of symmetric services, we continue to have concerns about the "data-center in the garage" problem. Our fiber-to-the-home service is deployed with reasonable assumptions about typical household uses, and folks doing large-scale hosting would break the model. Both economically, as well as from an upstream congestion perspective.
Trying to understand if you are saying you do not have any other bandwidth shaping approaches other than not providing statics IP addresses and hoping that people have not figured out how to use DyDNS?Put another way, your own ability to congest the inbound link is generally bound by the amount of consumption in the home, which is practically limited by the number of TVs (4K and such!), the number of systems, and the size of storage. So, unless you're just intentionally downloading and discarding content, it's headed somewhere: a screen, a hard drive, etc. That limits inbound usage to the devices in the home, a finite limit.
If you are paying $6,000 a month for a 10Gb/s connection I would happily connect you to much less expensive providers. Hurricane Electric charges less than $500 for 10Gb/s in their lit buildings, and even Lumen/Specturm are around $2,500 in new construction.The network and our costs just don't support that sort of high outbound usage. There's a reason that a 10 gigabit connection delivered to an enterprise site with 100 employees and a data-center costs $6,000 a month instead of the $39.99/mo a home user might pay for a similar connection. And that reason isn't just the infrastructure, it is because residential members have different usage patterns than a business.
@KGC: I am not the original poster but I can explain what CARP is, and why it is typically used. CARP - Common Address Redundancy Protocol, enables multiple systems to share a single IP address to enable hardware redundancy. FreeBSD, PFsense and OPNsense all use it to support redundant firewalls and routers. Completely explained in that document I posted earlier.