Hey everyone, I'm having a problem creating a working LAN in our house. We have a home network in our house that is set up as follows:
Cable Modem--->Switch--->5 computers
Comcast is our ISP, and we also buy additional IP's from them so that each of the five computers gets their own public IP address. Now before you lecture me on how I should get a router, let me tell you that I've been there and it doesn't suit our needs. Some of the applications we use require their own, unique public IP address to function properly.
Anyways, Comcast assigns us dynamic IP's using DHCP, all of which are potentially on different subnets (e.g. 27.12.102.23 and 67.133.142.4). The problem is that our computers can no longer see each other as a result of the vastly different IP's...no file or printer sharing, LAN gaming, etc. What I would like to do is assign a second, local IP address to each computer's network adapter. This is already possible within Windows XP, but not when DHCP is enabled. Windows will allow me to assign multiple static IP's to a network adapter, but as soon as I turn DHCP on, they go away. Does anyone know of a workaround to assign a static IP to a network adapter that already receives a dynamic IP?
P.S. I did a search on google and found a website that supposedly accomplishes what I'm asking, but I tried it out with no luck. Here's the link.
Cable Modem--->Switch--->5 computers
Comcast is our ISP, and we also buy additional IP's from them so that each of the five computers gets their own public IP address. Now before you lecture me on how I should get a router, let me tell you that I've been there and it doesn't suit our needs. Some of the applications we use require their own, unique public IP address to function properly.
Anyways, Comcast assigns us dynamic IP's using DHCP, all of which are potentially on different subnets (e.g. 27.12.102.23 and 67.133.142.4). The problem is that our computers can no longer see each other as a result of the vastly different IP's...no file or printer sharing, LAN gaming, etc. What I would like to do is assign a second, local IP address to each computer's network adapter. This is already possible within Windows XP, but not when DHCP is enabled. Windows will allow me to assign multiple static IP's to a network adapter, but as soon as I turn DHCP on, they go away. Does anyone know of a workaround to assign a static IP to a network adapter that already receives a dynamic IP?
P.S. I did a search on google and found a website that supposedly accomplishes what I'm asking, but I tried it out with no luck. Here's the link.