IP Networking

Oh people of expert i have proplem related to networking i wanna setup a computer as a web server and giving that server a real ip address

The details here as follows the location of that computer is a lab full of computers attached to local lan each lab is attached to a smart switch ( not cisco ) each switch of each lab is attached to a switch attached directly to a gateway to wide area network ( internet )

here's my problem

I wanna give the computer a real IP address in same lab without moving the computer please note the lab is local area network

what feature or technique allow me to do such a thing because i'm struggling with people of networking they said it's not possible an i must move my computer

does switching introduce a feature to implement such thing

Thanks in advance

hello

if you are running web server on your machine and want to expose on internet... you will need to configure nat on your DSL modem or whatever you have for your lab. Assign a local lan ip to this machine and nat it with your DSL ip with the port you specify on your apache web server.

Thanks for your reply
NAT is not sloution to my problem
and internet connection isn't DSL modem its a leased line connection
and i already have real static ip addresses for the machine
here's again my problem i'm in lab full of computers connected to local area network connected to a switch that siwtch is connected to another switch connected directly to the gateway to internet directly
i cannot move that machine to another location how can i give that machine real static ip address on same switch please note that the switch is a smart switch i heared once it's possible assign different subnets different and different IP's range gatways in same switch if someone knows that feature or technique please let me and Thanks in advance for your aid

sounds like you want to use a port based vlan