Need public static IP through Azure

Question

I am living in a Rental accomodation and using owner's wifi for internet and have setup my own SSID and Vlan network using WifiExtender and SophosWifi router.

The goal is to have static IP so that I can get into home network from outside and just wondering if it possible to get it using Azure.. If I RDP from outer network using Static IP from Azure, request gets forward to my Sophos router.

I do not want to try Dynamic DNS services.

Do let me know the Steps and Procedure if this is possible, I will owe you Starbucks Coffee :)

Answer 1

Hi @RD ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well.
I understand that you would like to assign a static IP address from Azure to a Sophos Router (which has no fixed IP) at your Home.

As stated by , @JimmySalian-2011 , I am afraid this is not a feasible scenario.
An Azure Public IP can be only associated to resources that are in Azure, not to an OnPrem resource (in our case, your Home network).

While there are multiple ways to connect a remote Client to Azure, and from there to OnPrem, the connection between OnPrem and Azure would require a static IP from the OnPrem end.

There is one possible solution here,

• You can use Azure VPN gateway and configure P2S
• You have to make sure all the machines in your home network are connecting to the VPN using P2S
• Once you are outside, you can use your machine to connect to Azure VPN via P2S
• Now, all the machines in the home network along with your remote machine are part of the same network and can communicate with each other.

However, I am not sure if this would meet your requirements. I have provided the design for your understanding.
P.S : You can also use a Third party NVA in Azure to achieve this

These documents may come handy,

• About Point-to-Site VPN
• Configure point-to-site VPN clients - certificate authentication
• Configure an Always On VPN device tunnel

Cheers,
Kapil

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Answer 2

Hi,

Unfortunately this is not possible, you can only use Azure Virtual Machines with Public Static IP. Also the scenario you mentioned is not correct and does not work in that way,

In Azure Resource Manager, a public IP address is a resource that has its own properties. Some of the resources you can associate a public IP address resource with:

Virtual machine network interfaces
Virtual machine scale sets
Public Load Balancers
Virtual Network Gateways (VPN/ER)
NAT gateways
Application Gateways
Azure Firewall
Bastion Host
Route Server

Hope this helps.
JS

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