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I have a static IP from my ISP.
My setup is a passthru to my X86 ClearOS router from the ISP gateway.
I am not sure why these fields are automatically filled by ClearOS or it's always this way only ClearOS GUI shows me the detail info.

My router is handling the IP start and End ranges for my LAN. Why the external port showing me all this? Can safely remove some of the fields?

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Tuesday, November 09 2021, 11:13 PM
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    Wednesday, November 10 2021, 04:45 PM - #Permalink
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    @Dirk, I think his Router is ClearOS as he talks about "X86 ClearOS router". DHCP should be left there for his LAN, but only configured for his LAN interfaces. A block of static IP's should be handled by the 1-to-1 NAT app. The MultiWAN app is for more than one external interfaces.
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    Wednesday, November 10 2021, 03:21 PM - #Permalink
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    My guess is you get a block of external static IP addresses from your ISP. You only need to use one of those addresses with a single external NIC on your gateway. You need to setup your external NIC's role as "external" and its connection type as "static", not "DHCP". You also need to enter the netmask and gateway IP address provided by your ISP. You also need to enter the DNS server IP addresses your ISP provides. This is the only way a static IP address from your ISP will work.

    If you have the DHCP app installed on your COS gateway, either delete it or disable it, if you're trying to have your router provide a DHCP server for your LAN. I wouldn't think you'd want a DHCP server trying to handle your block of public IP addresses, especially since that's probably just a handful of IP addresses. That's not how a block of public static IP addresses is expected to be handled by an end user. You'd need something like a multi-WAN setup, which the COS Marketplace has available.
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    Wednesday, November 10 2021, 08:35 AM - #Permalink
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    It does not make any sense at all to run a DHCP server on your WAN when you external interface gets its address by DHCP or when there is another DHCP server on the external network. The best thing to do is to delete it.
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