Using 2 static IP for WAN

[mstrom62]

I have 5 static IP on my Internet, and I'm wondering if I can make the Router use multiple IP? I'm not looking to do dual wan per say, just, if someone tries http at one IP a forward to one web server, if they do http on another IP it forwards to a different machine.

Thanks in advance.

 

[connorm]

to my knowledge only 1 ip per mac address. i dont believe this is possible with a single router. but. if you add a switch in between your router and your modem (or if you have a bridged modem router combo with a switch built in) you can simply plug in before the router and you will pull the additional static ips from the modem. each ip has its own set of ports thus allowing forwarded or in use ports to be used twice. i used to like giving my xbox its own public ip so that i would know it has access to every port 24/7. however my xbox can not handle ddos like my router can. lol. microsoft has a harsh buffer overflow problem.

 

[RMerlin]

Usually ISPs give out one IP for the WAN interface itself, and a routed block of additional IPs which you are responsible for routing on your LAN.

I never tried to set such a setup on an Asus router, but I suspect the theory would be to assign one IP from the routed block to the LAN interface of your router, and the other static IPs to machines on your LAN. That would imply however that you disabled NAT on that router, and relied on a second router to handle the NAT part with one of those static IPs.