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Static IP Addresses
Most Internet connections are assigned dynamic (randomly from a pool) Internet
Protocol (IP) addresses: each time your connection is made, a different, temporary
IP address is assigned. With static IP addresses, your connection gets the same
IP every time you connect to the Internet.
Static IP addresses permit a machine to offer Internet services like web,
ftp and email. Because a specific, known address is associated with your connection,
other machines on the Internet know where to send traffic destined for your
server.
For security purposes, many companies are installing firewalls to protect
them from malicious attacks. It is common practice to require all offsite legitimate
users to have static addresses if they go through the firewall to private sections
of the corporate network or VPN.
Using Network Address Translation (NAT), a single static address can serve
an entire company. ECTISP can configure a solution to deliver web traffic to
one server, ftp to a second and email to third. Each desktop workstation would
have only general network access.
If your company has multiple locations, ECTISP can design a VPN solution using
a single static address at each location to securely make remote locations appear
to be on the same LAN.
Services and Prices
Any ECTISP Dialup account may add one or more static IP addresses to the account.
Business Dialup customers who wish the functionality of a subnet may order multiple
static IP addresses at the same time and request that they be allocated so that
they are contiguous.
| Service |
Setup |
Per Month Pricing |
| 1 address subnet |
$10..00 |
$10.00 |
| 8 address subnet |
$25.00 |
$10.00 |
| 16 address subnet |
$25.00 |
$15.00 |
| 32 address subnet |
$25.00 |
$25.00 |
| 64 address subnet |
$25.00 |
$50.00 |
| 128 address subnet |
$25.00 |
$75.00 |
| 256 address subnet |
$25.00 |
$100.00 |
Customers with dedicated ISDN service or any form of T1 may add one or more
routed subnets.
Technical Details:
Every machine on the internet is assigned a numeric IP addresses of the form
A.B.C.D. This is how computers exchange Internet traffic. A reasonable analogy
is the global telephone system: anyone in the world can call you if they enter
the correct set of digits. On every computer on the Internet, entering ectisp.net
gets translated to 38.114.25.2 which then directs the user to ECTISP's web page.
38.114.25.2 is unique on the Internet, like a telephone number, it always reaches
the same destination.
With the recent growth of the Internet, and because IP addresses must be unique,
Internet Service Providers strive to use them efficiently. One way to do this
is by using an address pool for a class of service. An example, a dialup customer
calling a given city will be handed a random address out of such a pool. While
the address will be similar on successive calls, it may not be the same.
The typical home user needs to be able to browse the Internet but does not
need or want to offer services. As long as they have a valid, Internet-reachable
IP address each time they connect, they can access web pages, send and receive
email and play online games. So a dynamic IP address is just fine.
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