Hi, i asked before if this was possible, and people said yes, so i ordered 5 IP addresses from my ISP and they told me to set it up in my router.
So I went to my router and entered the default gateway, the primary & secondary DNS servers and one of the 5 static IP addresses they gave me.
It works, but how do I add the other 4 static IPs?
I went on LinkSys's live help support site and the tech guy didn't seem to know anything about it and/or didn't think it was possible. Here is the conversation. Can anyone let me know if he is right and i bought these IPs for NO reason? Thank you
P.S. i changed his name for privacy. It's not actually "alice"Code:Alice: Hi, my name is Alice. How may I help you? You: i was given a block of 5 static IPs by my ISP You: i was able to set up the router to use one of them You: and i need to set up the rest some how Alice: May I know what are those static IP addresses for? You: they are for anything You: one will be a website You: another will be a game server You: the rest i havnt decided yet Alice: I see. Alice: Can you please verify the exact model and version of your Linksys device? You: RV042 Alice: Thank you. Alice: Just to verify, you have the router configured already. Is that correct? You: i have the router configured to use one of the IPs You: my ISP gave me info such as: 5 IP addresses, the primary and secondary DNS servers, and the default gateway server You: i entered all that information into the router and it works You: except, i only entered one of the IPs because I don't know where to enter the others Alice: Actually we can enter one of those static IP address on your router. Alice: The rest of the static IP address is for your other possible DHCP server. Alice: I can't understand why your ISP gave you 5 static IP addresses. You: they gave me 5 static IPs because I asked them to You: it is an extra 20 dollars per month for a block of 5 static IPs Alice: We only need one static IP address in order for your router to work. Alice: The other I think is reserve for additional DHCP server in your network. You: i know that. and i said it DOES work You: but, it is common for businesses to have more than one IP address all leading to the same internet connection. Alice: That's correct. Alice: But for sure, we only need static IP address per router. You: im not sure what you are saying Alice: You can have the other static IP address as reserve just in case the one that you're currently using will be having a problem. Alice: I mean we only need one static IP address per router. Alice: We can't enter them all in your router.


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