Networking issue

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Oh people of expert i have proplem related to networking i wanna setup a computer as a web server and giving that server a real ip address

The details here as follows the location of that computer is a lab full of computers attached to local lan each lab is attached to a smart switch ( not cisco ) each switch of each lab is attached to a switch attached directly to a gateway to wide area network ( internet )

here's my problem

I wanna give the computer a real IP address in same lab without moving the computer please note the lab is local area network

what feature or technique allow me to do such a thing because i'm struggling with people of networking they said it's not possible an i must move my computer

does switching introduce a feature to implement such thing

Thanks in advance