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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
His IP address isn't different because of DHCP assignment, it's because with the router involved, there's two different networks in play. We don't actually know if he's using DHCP when connected to the router (but it's a reasonably safe assumption) based on the information provided.
I was emphasizing the firewall aspect of the router since it sounded like he was trying to get his PC to use a non-firewalled address, which is never a great idea for the average user.
Regardless, I'd love to know why he needs a new external IP address though, I bet its a good story.
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it's different because shaw assigns the router MAC address a different ip as the computer MAC address... so assigning the router to clone the MAC address of the pc will simulate shaw giving out the IP to the computer mac address instead of the router (hence getting the IP assigned to the computer to the router)
You can't have the router give individual outside IP's to each computer on it, that was not the goal of what the user was trying to do.