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Telus Fiber + Static Public IPs: NAH must not be in Bridge mode?
I keep hearing over and over again from Telus on-site techs and support agents that the Network Access Hubs will not work with Static IP addresses if set to Bridge Mode and they should be set to Rout...
Telus of course. LAN > Enterprise Firewall > Telus NAH > Fiber > ISP.
5 Static IP addresses from Telus.
I am assigning them to the Firewall's WAN interface.
Branch offices and Remote users must be able to establish VPN tunnels with the Firewall (VPN Gateway) over those IP addresses.
This means that the Network Access Hub must transparently pass-through the packets.
Telus claims that NAH must be set up in Router Mode for the static IPs to work. Router Mode means NAT.
Replying so that others can find this (hopefully you figured this out already).
The Telus network access hub does in fact need to be in router mode for static IPs to work. Your device will get a 192.168.1.x IP if you have them set to DHCP. If you set the static IP that Telus gave you, the NAH will do something internally and then you will have a public static IP without NAT. It sounds counterintuitive but that's how it works. Bridge mode will only get you a dynamic public IP.
