hello all- can someone please tell me what the proper way to set up a network with 192.168.xxx.xxx clients and 8 clients with public IPs? i have a CISCO 2960 48 port switch that i will serve the 192.168.xxx.xxx clients with and i have tried to connect the devices with public IPs in various configurations but to no avail.
my think was to connect this way:
COX Modem ===>> NETGEAR 8 port switch (plug in all public IP devices to this switch)
NETGEAR switch ====>> Apple Airport Extreme (latest version) WAN port
Apple Airport Extreme (LAN Port) ====>> CISCO 2960 switch (all 192.168.xxx.xxx clients connected to this device)
doing this the local clients get out just fine but i cannot ping or connect to the devices with public IPs. when i call COX they can see the public IP devices bridging over but cannot ping or connect to them. when i switched one of the devices to receive an address via DHCP from COX directly COX representative was able to ping it and connect to it. in this case it was a Synology NAS. when the type the public DHCP address in their browser they got the login page to the NAS. when i switched back to my assigned public IP they could see but not ping or connect again.
i have to be doing something wrong and they would;t help me troubleshoot further. i would really appreciate if any of you could help me figure this out. thanks in advance....
