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I bought a public IP from my ISP and they provided me with the following details.
WAN IP :10.129.69.157 LAN IP : 196.188.173.32/30
How do I configure this on my side ?
The told me to do configure as following
IP : :10.129.69.158
GATEWAY : :10.129.69.157
SUBNET : /29
then change the to
IP : 196.188.173.32
GATEWAY : 10.129.69.157
SUBNET : /29
With this technique I was able access my servers briefly but after a few hours the connection fails.
Actually, while is this is a strange application, the scenario that your ISP assigned to you is perfectly functional. What they're telling you is that you assign the 196.x.x.x address on your local LAN side, and you assign the 10.x.x.x address on your upstream WAN side. You then tell your router that his default route (or his 0.0.0.0/0 static route) is 10.129.69.157.
This works because of the following two principles:
Using RFC1918 addresses on WAN transit links helps the ISP conserve valuable public address space that is in high demand.
The only drawback to this scenario (which is BARELY a drawback) is that 10.129.69.x will be visible in traceroutes. And actually, the ISP may have their equipment set to not respond with TTL-expired messages anyways (which is how traceroutes work), so you'll just see a hop that times out. This is inconsequential and doesn't affect the performance of the circuit in any way.
[Edit]
I realize that you may need slightly more help. What the tech at your ISP told you to do does work for a short period of time because it relies on Proxy-ARP. This is not a long-term solution whatsoever. That guy (or gal) should take a networking course.
What you should do on your router is the following:
IP : :10.129.69.158
MASK : 255.255.255.248
IP : 196.188.173.33
MASK : 255.255.255.252
10.129.69.157. In "Cisco Language" that would be ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.129.69.157[Edit again]
By the way, there are more clever ways to use what they gave you, one of which would be to use something like a firewall. You would assign the firewall the WAN address that I mentioned previously, and add the default route. Then, you would configure static NATs for private devices behind the firewall to use the 4 static addresses that your ISP assigned to you (you noticed the mask was a /30, right?).
[Edit again again]
Your question was edited by a moderator, so a few details were lost in translation. I think the WAN address on your router should probably be 10.129.69.157, and the default route should probably point to 10.129.69.158. Your initial post doesn't specify what your ISP gave you as the default route, so i'm only taking an educated guess.
That should not work as configured and your device or operating system should refuse to implement that configuration. Contact your ISP to ask for more details, they have given you incomplete or incorrect information. The gateway address MUST be part of the network configured on your network interface.
