Windows Advanced Server as a Router?

[Shadi]

Well am guessing i can do this but rather than go through the WHOLE process and find out i can't i'd rather ask to see first.

i currently have a network of 6 computers, one directly connected to a hardware router with a LAN cable, and the others are all connected using wireless technology. Now this set up works fine with router doing internet sharing and DHCP etc.

Now the problem comes in where i have 6 Real IPs i want to use and assign to each computer, except unfortunatly i can't turn off the NAT on the router thus i can only use 1 IP for the whole network! Contacted the manufactor (Netgear) and there is nothing i can do to the router to change that so i need a work around.

So now i am tinking if i can use Windows Advanced Server on one of the computer to handle DHCP could i give out the real IPs to the computers? NOTE: the router also has the ADSL modem built inside itso am going to have to work with that somehow!

Any ideas?

[davemarks]

This might not help, but when i was using window 2k server as a router. I used Winroute Pro. I'm not sure whether you'll get the IP's through the Modem, but i have no experience with multiple ips in this way, sorry.

Let me know if you find a solution, as I will be coming up against this same problem in the next month.