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Problem with port forwarding not working on my CAX80 connected to Xfinity.
I was having the same problem with port forwarding not working on my CAX80 connected to Xfinity. After double and triple checking for errors on my part I checked the web for a solution and found your...
So Netgear admits that a disabled function (DHCP) can break an enabled function (PF). Even if I enable DHCP I cannot change the 192.168.1 part of the range, only the last octet. I am not going to change my network to 192.168.1.# to accommodate this flaw. I will continue daily rollback of FW until Netgear fixes this. If the next FW release has this same flaw I will have a CAX80 for sale. I am through jumping through hoops over this.
They admitted nothing. Read what I posted. Seems like how you have the configuration set isn't working for what the new FW is now designed to do. Not a flaw. May have exposed an incompatibility between the new FW and your configuration that ya worked on older FW however new FW doesn't allow for that. Highly doubt NG is changing that design as maybe a security reason behind it.
So instead of jumping thru hoops, change the CAX80 to modem only mode and use it for it's modem abilities and then connect up a router that works for you for your port forwarding needs.
Or sell it and find something that does.
Good Luck.