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Nighthawk M1 Passthrough Mode
Hi All,
I believe the M1 supports passthrough. Am I right in saying that when setup, the dynamically assigned IP from the telstra carrier in this case, would be allocated to the DHCP Client int...
So if the host is a pfsense firewall, does that mean the public IP is not allocated to the firewall? if its a bridge, which is layer 2, where is the public ip allocated to?
The public IP is assigned to M1's WAN interface all the time.
William
Right, so its not a bridge as the device would still then be doing NAT, is there no way to run it in Layer 2 mode only?
Is there a device that is more suited, ie a 4G LTE modem that operates as a proper layer 2 bridge?
it might need Netgear to revise the firmware in order to support this so called bridge mode, not sure if they would consider this as many users also experiencing double NAT problem which could be resolved by supporting bridge mode.
William