On 2023-07-14 06:12, Bob Rogers wrote:
From: "Carlos E. R." <> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:31:45 +0200
On 2023-07-12 03:41, Bob Rogers wrote: > From: "Carlos E. R." <> > Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:38:00 +0200 > > On 2023-07-11 08:49, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 2:15 AM Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users > > <users@lists.opensuse.org> wrote: > > ... > > > Anyway - the most obvious and easy solution to your "problem" is > > connecting your ISP uplink to the external switch and directly > > assigning external addresses on interfaces connected to this switch. > > Yes, this is what I said days ago :-) > > Ah, yes, your "morning tea" idea of 7-Jul; I had forgotten about that as > well. That ought to make the configuration simpler, but would require > Marc to acquire more public IP addresses from his ISP, and would > probably therefore also require getting a commercial subscriber license, > at a correspondingly higher commercial rate.
Why would he need more addresses?
Because that's what "directly assigning external addresses" means, doesn't it? An external address has to come from the ISP. From your network diagram, it looks like you were talking about something different after all . . .
But he already has 5 public addresses, one per computer, since the start. It is in the OP mail. Placing a switch after the modem doesn't add any more addresses. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)