I just got my welcome email with info to connect to my new server and it obviously included the IP's that my server has. Now, I just signed up for the standard 5 IPs, yet the welcome email tells me of a total of 13 IP addresses. Logging into the server and running ifconfig confirms that my new server has 13 IPs assigned to it. I'm just wondering if this is normal, or if some of those IPs are not useable, etc. I certainly don't want to start using an IP just to find out later that it wasn't supposed to be there and then be surprised later on when I catch my next CC statement. =) If it is normal, well then. WOOHOO!!!! No complaints here!

PS: The setup time was more than reasonable considering I wasn't expecting to have access until later this morning. Grand total to be set up? About 12 hours... half of the advertised time. Way to go SM!

It is normal for SM to provide a little extras with servers with no charge but this is the first time extra IPs were provided.

Maybe what you could do is to drop accounting a ticket and ask for an invoice then you can check.

Well for the most part, I have no objection to paying $1/month per IP in the end. At least this would prevent me from having to deal with ARIN justification later on down the road. Well, at least for a little while.

On that note, I guess that they gave IP's to make up for not installing Pico. =) Grr, now I have to start remembering how to use vi again, lol.

hmm
They are blackmailing you with IP's?
i wouldnt complain haha

Or you could just install pico yourself

That course of action would just make too much sense. Plus, I didn't see pine on the list of packages in cPanel, and my brain *has* managed to regurgitate some old commands, so i'm good to go again! (aside from some FTP issues listed in another thread on these forums.)

Is your box running Red Hat Enterprise Linux? I've heard that it doesn't come with pico by default. Is anything else missing other than pico?

Not that I have noticed (so far.) IT came with all the basics (apache, mysql, bind, ssh, etc.) so I don't think there's anything missing. Of course, I haven't touched Linux (Redhat especially) for about two years, so i'm not one to pass judgement on it.

Yeah, I read the same thing too that RH Ent does not come with pico . So you have to explicitly install it yourself. The only thing is that I cannot remember where I read that from.

up2date pine

Or just use nano

- enhanced free pico clone with all the same commands. Instaled by default with many new distros... including RH Ent 3.0

Excellent! Didn't know about that.