I'm having trouble understanding this. It's just not clicking.
When you get static IPs from the ISP, how do they only allow you to use them? I understand the setups where they give you say a /30 and the assign the modem an IP and route it that way, but my ISP doesn't do it this way.
I've been given two static IPs on a /24 subnet. What prevents another person on that subnet from using my IPs? Also how do they route my IPs? Do they route by port or what? I know that the one port on the 2wire is pass through to the router but the other ports use the 2wire dhcp and are in router mode and the WAN IP on those ports is in a DHCP range different than my static IPs. How do they do this?
I'm a visual learner so if I could just look at their setup I'd understand it better.
Hope my questions make sense. These are just informational questions. My static IPs have worked great for the past 2 years.
When you get static IPs from the ISP, how do they only allow you to use them? I understand the setups where they give you say a /30 and the assign the modem an IP and route it that way, but my ISP doesn't do it this way.
I've been given two static IPs on a /24 subnet. What prevents another person on that subnet from using my IPs? Also how do they route my IPs? Do they route by port or what? I know that the one port on the 2wire is pass through to the router but the other ports use the 2wire dhcp and are in router mode and the WAN IP on those ports is in a DHCP range different than my static IPs. How do they do this?
I'm a visual learner so if I could just look at their setup I'd understand it better.
Hope my questions make sense. These are just informational questions. My static IPs have worked great for the past 2 years.