kpa said:
How did your ISP assign those 5 addresses to you? Without knowing the details I can just make a guess that you were given an 8 address /29 subnet (first and last address reserved for network and broadcast addresses and one for gw address giving 5 usable addresses) that is forwarded to your router and you're supposed to assign one of the addresses as an alias address to the LAN interface of the router as the gateway address and use the rest of the usable addresses as aliases on LAN hosts.
Or you could assign the gateway address as the main address on the LAN interface of the router and use just the public routable addresses as LAN addresses.
Well, I was e-mailed by them giving me a block of 5 ip addresses. I can count 5 actual static ip addresses. I have a linsys router that only allows me to setup one static ip address from my ISP. I am new to this.
When you say gw do you mean? Gateway? Those they give me another ip.
They gave me 5 actual static ip addresses. They gave me a submask and a gateway address and that isn't counted as part of the ip given. I think these are shared.
Right now I have freebsd 8.1 on my server. All computer including my server gets an ip address. I create a static ip internally for my server which is given 2 internal static ips.
So, you're saying I need to go onto my server and set it up to have an alias address to be exactly the ip's that my ISP gave me to be set as an alias?
I don't know how they assigned me the IP's. They never told me. They just said that my modem has been bridged. So I don't need to worry about the modem. I just need to hardcode my router with the static ip that I want my personal computers to use.
I own this router: Linksys WRT300N V1.1.
I was told that I need to have one to one NAT to allow public ip addressesing to internal computers. I was told my router doesn't have this. So, I need to buy a new router that has these features. Is this true? If not then can you explain what you mean by aliases addressing.
I only know the basics and intermediate aspects of networking. I don't know more then what I experienced. This is the first time I am getting more then one IP address. I thought I could just set those ip addresses to my computers / servers inside my network behind the router. I thought I would have to set them up manually by going to network connections and using the external ip address and the other information that my ISP provided me with. I thought that would be good enough. I tried it and nothing happened.
I already changed my 2 domain names to point to 2 static ips that I just got assigned. So the domain names are set. I then changed my server to use those same ip addresses. Nothing happened and I had to set the server back to those 2 static internal ip addresses.