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

[Adam Thompson]

If there's only one device, bridge mode is dead-simple: you just set the static IP on the device, and you plug it into the modem.
If there's more than one device, then, yeah... more complicated.  Although if it's only two devices, you can just use a $40 switch - the 2nd device will pick up a DHCP address.
-Adam

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From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces at muug.ca> on behalf of Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RndTbl] How to set up and use static IP from Rogers/Shaw

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<mailto: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<mailto:roundtable-bounces at muug.ca>> On Behalf Of Kevin McGregor
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2024 9:34 PM
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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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