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finny23j
Aspirant
Jan 25, 2019

I would like to force the Remote Management address to be the address of my Xfinity Cable modem addr

I would like to port forward my remote management feature on my cable modem. I currently it is set to 10.0.0.x which is on the cable modem network. I would like to set it so it has the public ip of t...
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ekhalil
Master
Jan 26, 2019
finny23j wrote:

I would like to port forward my remote management feature on my cable modem. I currently it is set to 10.0.0.x which is on the cable modem network. I would like to set it so it has the public ip of the cable modem, but the configuration page in the admin tool doesn't allow me to modify the ip address of the management address and port? Can I do this so that I can access my orbi remotely?

If you have an ISP router in front of Orbi then to access Orbi remotely you need to forward (in the ISP router) Orbi's management port to the IP address assigned to Orbi in the ISP router.

Orbi's remote management port can be set in Orbi as follows:

 

So if the ISP router's management IP is 10.0.0.1 and the address assigned to Orbi in the ISP router is -say- 10.0.0.2 then you need to forward port 8443 (or what ever port you choose in Orbi) from the WAN side of the ISP router to IP address 10.0.0.2, port 8443.