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

[Kevin McGregor]

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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