Changing the IP the router passes through

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Basically, I am running a router(an x86 PC) in an institution/school. The Network manager gave me access to the ISP signal through a switch.

The base public address that the network has from the ISP, will be different then mine and I can't connect to the base public IP on the network as it is blocked off.

The network manager provided me the public address that I should use to send/receive data directly to the ISP.

I tried adding said IP to my installation of OpenWrt. What I did is I modified manually the /etc/config/network to add:

config interface wan
    option 'proto' 'static'
    option ipaddr '207.xx.xx.6'

After that I restarted/reloaded the network config. It did not work.

I tried finding other similar situations but found nothing that could help.

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did you include the gateway address, subnet mask, and DNS servers in your wan interface stanza? You need all of those things if you are using a static IP.

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