external ip's to internal devices

[majorpayne]

Hello,

I current have the defualt firmware loaded on my rt-n66u but from my understanding it does not support transferring external IP's ( block 8 with 5 usable) to devices internally

Does this version of the firmware support this feature. Ultimately I'd like to be able to have some devices with external ip and some with internal IP.

I have never attempted to load any special firmware on a router before so I'm very new to this. I did a search but honestly I want sure if I had found the answer.

TIA

 

[Nerre]

Why not just connect a switch before the router and connect the devices that should have an external address to the switch?

 

[majorpayne]

I'd rather not have to purchase another switch to add in front of the router as i'm not sure all the current or future devices will have the pppoe software/settings to handle the authentication I would need. On top of this I'm not sure my ISP Modem which I killed the routing on allows more then 1 port active. Yes I could change routing from the modem to the switch to the router but that is a lot of devices to cause issues.

If it's my only option which doesn't make sense to me since I know other routers have had this ability. If it's a resource issue i can comprehend that and understand it. if it's a just didn't do it then that is a downfall in my opinion

 

[sinshiva]

seen this thread; http://forums.smallnetbuilder.com/showthread.php?t=15300 ?

 

[majorpayne]

nope but i'll look into it