i assume not too many people have this situation, but any help to make it work would be appreciated:
i subscribe to cable along with an additional block of 4 IP's. therefore until now, i've never bothered with NAT or wireless, as i just used a hub/switch with the modem attached to the uplink port and all my client computers connected to the hub/switch's downlink ports (each client with their own software firewall installed, of course).
i'm currently just trying to see if i can keep this general setup, but also have one of the public IP's be assigned to a wireless router. the problem is, if i connect that router to any of my hub/switch's ports, all the other systems lose their connection. apparently my router needs to be directly connected to the cable modem and cannot first pass through a hub/switch. thus i can't seem to use BOTH my extra public IP's AND a wireless router at the same time.
is there any way around this? basically, what i'd like to do is: keep the separate public IP's for some more dedicated server-like applications, meanwhile the rest of the network for casual internet use would share the router's connection.
i subscribe to cable along with an additional block of 4 IP's. therefore until now, i've never bothered with NAT or wireless, as i just used a hub/switch with the modem attached to the uplink port and all my client computers connected to the hub/switch's downlink ports (each client with their own software firewall installed, of course).
i'm currently just trying to see if i can keep this general setup, but also have one of the public IP's be assigned to a wireless router. the problem is, if i connect that router to any of my hub/switch's ports, all the other systems lose their connection. apparently my router needs to be directly connected to the cable modem and cannot first pass through a hub/switch. thus i can't seem to use BOTH my extra public IP's AND a wireless router at the same time.
is there any way around this? basically, what i'd like to do is: keep the separate public IP's for some more dedicated server-like applications, meanwhile the rest of the network for casual internet use would share the router's connection.