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Port forwarding to Nighthawk RAX70? trying to bridge two routers
I'm trying to bridge from a Telus T3200M Router to the Nighthawk RAX70 AX6600 Router but having great difficulty. Wifi Router set-up appeared to work through browser... but when we tried to connect ...
Litron wrote:
I'm trying to bridge from a Telus T3200M Router to the Nighthawk RAX70 AX6600 Router but having great difficulty.
No surprise there. You are trying to do something that is not recommended. Two routers make bad company when bolted together.
Two routers on your network can cause headaches. For example, you can end up with local address problems. Among other things, the other router can misdirect addresses that the Netgear router usually handles, such as routerlogin.net or the usual IP address for a router, 192.168.1.1.
This explains some of the other drawbacks.
What is Double NAT? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
What does "bridge" mean as you see it?
The "bridge mode" term means different things in different contexts. In a modem/router like yours, it usually means putting the device into "modem only" mode, disabling the router bit of the T3200M. Is that what you are doing.
Another "bridge" is as a wifi connection between two devices.
... but when I called Telus, they suggested the Telus Router needed to have Port Forwarding setup.
Maybe that is their idea of bridge mode.
This might offer some clues:
telus t3200m bridge mode - Google Search
Port forwarding isn't usually a part if the process.
What do you want to achieve at the end of this process? What do you want to do on the RAX70?
If it is essentially there to give you the wifi, then you can put it into AP mode and leave the T3200M to do the router's work.
How do I change my NETGEAR router to AP mode? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
You might want to turn off the wifi from the T3200M to avoid clashes.