when I sellect static IP the router will then demand for a live IP(public IP) , subnet mask and default gateway. unfortunately my ISP has configured NATTINg on the modem so that I can only see a private IP as my default gateway of 192.168.1.1 but the public IP is hidden from me plus I cant even ping my modem . I think I have to contact them
I thought that the setting is for the built-in DHCP
server on the linksys. But this is obviously the setting for the DHCP
client in the linksys were it accepts IPs from the ISP. Thats totally different. What I'm suggesting is making the linksys work as a simple switch (without using it's WAN (adsl) port), in other words, it doesn't need an IP (granted that I'm not mistaken here :roll:).
I wonder, is what you see similar to this:
If so, then select the
disabled option. But you can leave "Automatic Configuration - DHCP" as it is. And offcourse, connect the modem to one of the LAN ports of the linksys.
I don't expect it to work easily as this is not a standard procedure or the typical way of operation, you might need to do some further tweaking.