No problem Marc, not in a hurry will look forward to your call.

IDCS you're right, a sticky ip is one where the router logs on using PPPOE, then receives the same public ip address every time it does. I get this for outbound internet traffic. Where I'm confused is that they've given the customer a range of eight public ip's, one of them specifically being used as the gateway for all the rest. According to tier 2 support from ATT when an incoming request comes in to one of the statics that is not the gateway address, they route it to the router via the specific gateway address and the router can be configured to deal with this. I understand the concept, not real sure it will work with the samsung. And you're right on plain old static being the way to go here which I'm very familiar with and is what we asked for from ATT, but got this mess instead.