I am hosting a public web server at home across a DSL connection with my ISP. I have a block of 12 static IPS, most of which are used up by the DSL modem, a firewall/router, WAP, public IP, etc. After all is said and done I have only 4 IPs of the block of 12 available for my web server and PC workstations. In other words I’m all out of IPs. Rather than try to add another block of IPs, I though I could split the network into 2 segments. One segment would be static IPs and the other DHCP both sharing the DSL router as a gateway. I would put the public web server on the static IP side adn my PC work stations on the DHCP side. So I added a 5 port switch between my DSL modem and the firewall/router and then added a second firewall/router connected to the switch thereby splitting the network. That all seemed to work fine until I tried to hit my public web server from the DHCP side of the network. Before DHCP I had to use the hosts file for this routing as my firewall does not support a loopback. My question is, how can I access the public web server from the DHCP side of the network? I am guessing I need to enter a static route from one firewall to the other?
