Use of FVS366G Router and Comcast provided Device

http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Home-Networking-Router-WiFi/Turning-off-all-router-settings-on-a-SMCD3GNV/td-p/957393

You need SMC to be in bridge mode. Call comcast suport.

If you can not put public IP on FVS you will not able to use VPN.

You may need them to put additional basic cable modem if you can not put current smc in bridge mode

Do you have static IP's?

I configured my Comcast Router into a Bridge mode and my Internet access is working. However, when I log into the FVS336G I do not see any public IP address under the Router Status tab. I am using DynDNS but cannot find my router from the external internet. Does this prevent me from setting up a Personal Cloud with my iomega NAS Storage as well as other remote access solutions?

Why does the bridge not pass through the external IP address to the FVS336G? Do you have any recommendations?

Consult Comcast with your setting on modem side

ashbrn5 wrote:
However, when I log into the FVS336G I do not see any public IP address under the Router Status tab. Why does the bridge not pass through the external IP address to the FVS336G? Do you have any recommendations?

You say you do not see a public ip address, however you have not told us what you are seeing - if it's a private address then the Comcast modem/router is not in bridge mode.

After some reinvestigation it looks like my Comcast Modem/Router was not in Bridge mode. It has an external IP address and is set to DHCP which I assume my Netgear router receives an IP address and then through the Netgear DHCP distributes IP addresses to my local devices.

One question, when I finally set the Comcast Modem to act as a Bridge, I expect it to pass thru the external IP address to the Netgear router. I plan to use dyndns to manage the IP address such that I can log in to my Netgear router from the outside. I also want to setup port forwarding for my iOmega NAS Cloud device. Is that correct?

Thanks for the help,

Yes... ONLY when comcast unit is in bridge mode it will released the dynamic IP of the comcast IP to the FVS. Till then you will not going to abel to use you dynamic dns to remotely conned to your NAS.