Another Problem Solved!

One of my problems on the road was connecting to my system remotely from a hotel. Once I knew the ip address of my router then it was no problem. I have it set to configure remotely and I can go in and open or close some of the ports in case I forget to set everything up before I leave.

Due to DHCP not only would my router ip address change, but my PC ip address would change. I just setup a static Ip adderss on the workstation and set the router to keep the port open on my router...that part done. No more DHCP for the workstation.

Again due to DHCP and my ISP, the routers internet ip address is constantly changing every time I reset it. So I re-activated my account at DYNDNS.com.

I have an updater on my pc that connects to DYNDNS.com and reports my routers ip address regularily. Now instead of calling home to find out what is going on when I'm out of town, I just have my remote software connect to my dynamic dns name of my account just like surfing to a website. It's so much easier to do this...especially since it's free.

An example of this would be to use "myaccountname.dynalias.org" as the address instead of using the ip address. My account has been inactive for quite a few months since I was no longer hosting my own website on my home machines.

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My router talks to dyndns directly, so I don't even have to run anything on a PC. The native Linksys firmware does it (I think), though I run third-party firmware on my Linksys. Actually, what's cool is that I have entries under phoneboy.com that are CNAMEs to the dyndns names I get.On the DSL side of things, I don't actually need to do this since I have a block of static IPs. Even with my cable connection with either Comcast or Wave, they never changed my IP address as long as my router was sending out the same MAC address.
— PhoneBoy
Static ip's are definately the way to go...hey thanks my linksys router supports it also...time to tweak!
— TechZilla
I have an employer I can easily convince I need static IPs for work, and trust me, when I need them, I NEED them :) A block of 5 is an extra $20/month, so it's not even that expensive anyway.
— PhoneBoy
As in frequently as I go out of town it doesn't matter for me so it's not worth the extra bucks. BTW I configured my router for dyndsn.org and works fine. What luck since that is the only one supported by the factory firmware. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
— TechZilla
In your case, you probably don't need them. I, however, support a wide range of enterprise-grade software and hardware products--products that need to live on a public, static IP address. And, of course, I do this from home. ;)An extra $20/month is a no-brainer in that case, even though the vast majority of the time, they are not necessary.
— PhoneBoy