[RndTbl] How to set up and use static IP from Rogers/Shaw

[Kevin McGregor]

Thank you, Vijay! I'll try to get it working without any additional
hardware first, and failing that I'll let you know what I need.

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 10:27 AM Vijay Sankar <vsankar at foretell.ca> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> Most of the systems I can give away are older than 5 years. They do have
> intel Xeon or i7, hot swappable drives, 2 to 6 gbics, 8 to 32 GB etc.. Also
> I have a 12 port microtik router that may be useful in your situation (I
> used that to bond a bunch of services from Shaw a few years ago)
>
> Please let me know if any of this is of interest.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vijay
>
> Vijay Sankar
> ForeTell Technologies Limited
> vsankar at foretell.ca
>
>
> On Feb 13, 2024, at 8:32 AM, Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
> I considered bridge mode, but I'm trying to do this without obtaining
> additional hardware (i.e. a firewall box of some kind). Unless some kind
> soul out there has a suitable spare box to donate to a non-profit?
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 10:18 PM Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net>
> wrote:
>
>> With my Shaw account, I got them to put the modem into Bridge mode, then
>> I treated the Ethernet 1 port as though it was a port on their router, i.e.
>> I set my firewall’s IP to the assigned static IP.
>>
>> If you want to do it with the Shaw modem acting as a router, I have no
>> idea, sorry.
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Roundtable <roundtable-bounces at muug.ca> *On Behalf Of *Kevin
>> McGregor
>> *Sent:* Monday, February 12, 2024 9:34 PM
>> *To:* Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable at muug.ca>
>> *Subject:* [RndTbl] How to set up and use static IP from Rogers/Shaw
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm helping out someone with a Shaw Business account, and they have a
>> static IP they'd like to set up and use for one specific server.
>>
>>
>>
>> So generally, how do you set this up? Shaw forwards traffic with that
>> static IP (and the dynamic one, too) to the router, and then... Enable the
>> DMZ feature of the router and set the IP address of the server to the
>> static one from Shaw and it just works? Or is there some other work to do?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
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