mikeymikec
Lifer
I was using a router that I bought from my ISP but it was replaced in warranty then its replacement (both identical models) died, so I don't intend to buy any more of those.
My ISP provides me with multiple static IPs. One has been for my web/mail server, and the router has its own (I have a few spare but I haven't used them in a long time).
As I had a spare D-Link 2640R, I tried that, but its "static IP" configuration doesn't work and for some reason it's as unstable as hell (it's not a new one, but still... odd).
I then tried a Netgear N300 (DGN2200v3), and while it has a static IP option for PPPoA, it doesn't have an option to set the subnet mask, so it won't route packets to the server. On the first and second routers I set the server to be the 'DMZ' machine so the router's firewall, and I thought that most modern ADSL routers would have the correct options to allow me to do that again, and while this router has the DMZ option it's not a lot of use if it rejects packets to the server's public IP.
I don't know whether I can use static routes to hack a way around this router's limitation, but I don't know much/anything about static routes so I'm stumped there.
The Netgear's manual kind of suggests that there ought to be an option to enter a subnet in the router's public IP configuration but in the router's web-based admin that option only appears if I set it not to require logging in to my ISP, which won't work (I tried it out of desperation). I'm going to try and ring Netgear tomorrow but I expect to get a "why not try our most expensive router" response.
My ISP provides me with multiple static IPs. One has been for my web/mail server, and the router has its own (I have a few spare but I haven't used them in a long time).
As I had a spare D-Link 2640R, I tried that, but its "static IP" configuration doesn't work and for some reason it's as unstable as hell (it's not a new one, but still... odd).
I then tried a Netgear N300 (DGN2200v3), and while it has a static IP option for PPPoA, it doesn't have an option to set the subnet mask, so it won't route packets to the server. On the first and second routers I set the server to be the 'DMZ' machine so the router's firewall, and I thought that most modern ADSL routers would have the correct options to allow me to do that again, and while this router has the DMZ option it's not a lot of use if it rejects packets to the server's public IP.
I don't know whether I can use static routes to hack a way around this router's limitation, but I don't know much/anything about static routes so I'm stumped there.
The Netgear's manual kind of suggests that there ought to be an option to enter a subnet in the router's public IP configuration but in the router's web-based admin that option only appears if I set it not to require logging in to my ISP, which won't work (I tried it out of desperation). I'm going to try and ring Netgear tomorrow but I expect to get a "why not try our most expensive router" response.
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