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Depends a lot on your infrastructure.<br />
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Normally you would use NAT (Network Address Translation) to take an address from your Router / Firewall to a private IP on a server behind that.<br />
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Chris
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Depends a lot on your infrastructure.

Normally you would use NAT (Network Address Translation) to take an address from your Router / Firewall to a private IP on a server behind that.

Chris

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so would i at my isp get an external ip and then NAT it at the firewall to the internal server??
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so would i at my isp get an external ip and then NAT it at the firewall to the internal server??

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Either that or use the public IP assigned to the external interface of your Firewall at the moment.<br />
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If you use the existing address you could use PAT (Port Address Translation) to get the requests in.<br />
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Chris
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Either that or use the public IP assigned to the external interface of your Firewall at the moment.

If you use the existing address you could use PAT (Port Address Translation) to get the requests in.

Chris

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i cannot use the firewall that way<br />
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is it allright to get an external p from my isp and then NAT it through the firewall???<br />
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is there anything manually that i have to put in on my server??
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i cannot use the firewall that way

is it allright to get an external p from my isp and then NAT it through the firewall???

is there anything manually that i have to put in on my server??

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how do i manually assign an external ip address to a server???<br />
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my dns is hosted by my isp so do i have to talk to them or is this something that i do manually on the server??
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how do i manually assign an external ip address to a server???

my dns is hosted by my isp so do i have to talk to them or is this something that i do manually on the server??

How to assign an external ip address to a server???

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