> -If you use an Ethernet router instead of a USB modem, then with a good line
> you should be able to keep the connection 'live' for several weeks at a go.
>
> Other point, your ISP probably uses a limited range of addresses for ADSL
> connections. if you ask them they should be able to tell you what this is.
> Your admin might accept making a firewall rule for the whole of this range.
>
> You could also run a webproxy on any Internet-side webserver with CGI
> capabilities. This generally calls for pro-grade webspace, mind you.

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> Hi
> We have a dynamic ip ADSL service to our home network with dynamic ip
> addresses assigned to each computer. My wife needs to access a secure
> site for work which restricts access to a limited ip range - i.e. she
> needs to provide the security team a fixed ip address for which access
> will be enabled. She only requires web browsing on this secure site for
> a few weeks so I don't want to go through the hassle of upgrading to a
> fixed ip address with our ISP (a lengthy process) if there's an
> alternative way of achieving the same ends.
>
> Does anyone know of such a way? I thought that someone might be
> offering a kind of public internet NAT and have been searching on
> Google but to no avail. I had a look at one of those identity-masking
> sites but it didn't seem to offer to display a specific fixed ip
> address just to mask your current one.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help.
>
> James
>

> Hi
>
> I do not know of any thing that you can do on your side.
>
> The general way to appear on the Internet with another IP is to use a Proxy
> server. The IP that would appear on the Internet would be one of the Band
> that belongs to the Proxy service not your dynamic IP.
>
> Unfortunately, these types of services are used by many that want to Hide
> their real IP because they are might be involved in NO-NO activities so they
> are not "popular" with security people.
>
> Contact the people that run the Secure site that your wife want to use and
> ask them if they would accept an IP of the band that belongs to a business
> oriented Proxy service (
>
> Example: http://theproxyconnection.com/ ), if they would (which I doubt) you
> can solve the problem.
>
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
>
>
> <james***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1154379644.715148.180930@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi
> > We have a dynamic ip ADSL service to our home network with dynamic ip
> > addresses assigned to each computer. My wife needs to access a secure
> > site for work which restricts access to a limited ip range - i.e. she
> > needs to provide the security team a fixed ip address for which access
> > will be enabled. She only requires web browsing on this secure site for
> > a few weeks so I don't want to go through the hassle of upgrading to a
> > fixed ip address with our ISP (a lengthy process) if there's an
> > alternative way of achieving the same ends.
> >
> > Does anyone know of such a way? I thought that someone might be
> > offering a kind of public internet NAT and have been searching on
> > Google but to no avail. I had a look at one of those identity-masking
> > sites but it didn't seem to offer to display a specific fixed ip
> > address just to mask your current one.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > James
> >