static IP
How can you operate with no modem? Isn't your Speedtouch device a router/modem? Anyway, when you connect to the ATM network the device doing the negotiation will receive a static address - if that is your router then your router will have a static IP on the WAN side and a local subnet IP on the LAN side. In such a case you need to put the router into a 'bridge' mode and your server will need to run 'PPPoE' to do the negotiation and obtain the static IP. This also means that your server needs another ethernet connection to share with the XP computer and your server must be on all the time for anyone on the LAN to access the internet. The only other alternative is to use 'DMZ' which means you route ALL traffic with certain protocols from the WAN side to a particular machine on the LAN side. For this to work, your router must support multiple connections (well routers DO support multiple connections - a device should not be called a router if it only connects between 2 devices). Otherwise, the 'DMZ' will consist of sending all traffic to your server and your server then decides what passes to the LAN and what is processed by the server.
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