ZyXEL – Router Setup (Public IP Range)
KB ID 0000331 Problem You have a ZyXEL router (In my case a P-600R-D1) and you want to put a device behind it with a public IP. Note: I’m assuming you have agreed with your ISP that you will receive a range of public IP addresses. With some ASDL packages the first IP in the range usually gets allocated to the router, confirm this with your ISP. BT Business Broadband Note: If you are a BT Business customer, your setup will be...
BT Business ADSL – Configure a 2Wire Router to Allocate a Static (Public) IP Address
KB ID 0000760 Problem I know BT are now shipping the BT Business Hub, to their business ADSL clients, but there’s still a few 2Wire routers out there in the wild. Essentially if you have a range of public IP addresses, this is how to allocate one of the public IP addresses to one of your devices. In my case its a Cisco ASA firewall that I need to have a public IP. Solution Firstly I’m going to assume the router is working and...
BT Business Hub 3 – And Cisco ASA 5500
KB ID 0000762 Problem Warning: If your ASA is running version 8.3(4) or above you are going to have problems assigning public IP addresses from your allocated BT Range (jump to the bottom of the article for a resolution). You have a pool of public IP addresses and you wish to allocate one of these IP addresses to your Cisco ASA Firewall. Note: This is for customers using BOTH ADSL and BT Infinity Solution For this procedure I was...
BT Domains Center – Setup Your Mail Server DNS Records
KB ID 0000900 Problem If you are used to setting up DNS records, then the BT Web Portal (btdomainmanager.com) can be a little confusing. I was stuck yesterday, luckily I had another client I could get to check their records for me. Solution In the example below I’ve got two IP addresses to which I want mail delivering to, 123.123.123.123 and 123.123.123.125, (yours may be on completely different ranges, that’s OK.) In addition...
Google Searches Work, But All the Result Links DON’T(BT Broadband)
KB ID 0000740 Problem I was covering the phone for one of the days over the Christmas period, and a client had rang in with this problem, at first I thought it was simply an EDNS problem like this. However some testing proved DNS was working fine? Then I thought it was an Internet Explorer problem, until Chrome and Firefox did the same. I could go to Google and search for what I wanted,but all the links (and any other URL I tried,...