one thing you can do is get a small hub/switch and put that immediately after the dsl modem. attach the two static ip pcs and the router to the hub. then set up your internal lan on the router. one problem here is that the two external computers will be firewalled out from your lan. that, however, can be easily remedied by adding a second nic to them and also tie them into the internal lan.
another thing to keep in mind is that on most (maybe all) routers you can forward specific ports to internal computers. this works really well when you only have one computer you want to use for any one task. when you want to have to web servers, for example, you would have to have to do something like router port 80 goes to pc1 port 80 and router port 87 goes to pc2 port 80. but if you don't mind that then this would be the cheaper solution.
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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one thing you can do is get a small hub/switch and put that immediately after the dsl modem. attach the two static ip pcs and the router to the hub. then set up your internal lan on the router. one problem here is that the two external computers will be firewalled out from your lan. that, however, can be easily remedied by adding a second nic to them and also tie them into the internal lan.
another thing to keep in mind is that on most (maybe all) routers you can forward specific ports to internal computers. this works really well when you only have one computer you want to use for any one task. when you want to have to web servers, for example, you would have to have to do something like router port 80 goes to pc1 port 80 and router port 87 goes to pc2 port 80. but if you don't mind that then this would be the cheaper solution.
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Ben Franklin
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