lan forwarding

Hi all, I'm relatively new the the forum, but from everything I've picked up about this place over the last year or more of running into it, this is the place to be if you have questions with ASUS routers. What I'm looking for is a few different ideas of how you would implement the below...

I have a TCP Lighting gateway that I've incorporated into the home automation project I'm doing, the 'Connected By TCP' gateway/software isn't that easy to work with. When the gateway loses power, it automatically requests a dynamically assigned IP despite have given it a static on the...