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R6300V2 Bridge Mode Prevents Port Forwarding! Help!
I have spent over a total of 100 hours trying to get port forwarding to work on my network so that I can use the remote access feature on the Plex Media Server app. I've done all the basics, rese...
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Your internet port has a 100.x.x.x address. canyouseeme.org shows a 76.x.x.x.
That says that either your ISP's modem is doing its own NAT routing or that your ISP is using carrier NAT. On paper at least 100.x.x.x is reserved for carrier NAT.
See if you can find the manufacturer/model for that modem. You also might need to contact your ISP, and see if they have some way to keep that port open.
Another thought is that you could try changing the port number (say to 49152) in the R1 forwarding rule and also in the plex server configuration. It's possible that using a port in the "private use" range will work better.
Bridge mode should not be blocking ports, although there is always the possibility of a bug. Let's see if we can figure this out.
With router 2 in bridge mode, were you able to access Plex while at home? If the answer is yes, then bridge mode is not blocking ports.
Did you set up port forwarding on router 1 to point at your PC's address? I ask because it looks like you may have tried to point at router 2's IP address.
Finally, your successful attempt by bridging your PC's Wi-Fi and Ethernet interfaces is unnecessary. Your PC is now functioning as a bridge to router 2:
Router 1-----PC----Router 2----Other devices?
Unless there are additional devices connected to router 2, this setup is doing nothing. It's certainly not helping make Plex accessible. You should find that Plex still works even if you unbridge the PC's two interfaces.
Sorry for the late reply, I went to bed shortly after posting, having been up over 24 hours trying to work on this.
Yes it works when I'm at home, but you don't NEED the ports forwarded when you're on your home network (I can watch it without the port forwarding at all from home). When the router is NOT bridged, I can forward the port (with my PC's IP, NOT the 2nd router, though I've tried it both ways when I ran out of things to try) and acess it outside of the home. When the router IS bridged, the ports do not open, I've used port forwarding programs such as PFConfig and they all tell me that the port is closed/unreachable when the router is bridged, but they work fine when it is NOT bridged.
Is bridged mode meant to grey out a lot of the things in the router's settings? I can't edit any info on router 2, just wireless settings to turn bridge mode on/off, view some router info, etc etc, no major changes. On router 1, I can still edit things correctly, as it's not in bridged mode. But forwarding the ports on router 1 while router 2 is in bridge mode, makes everything tell me the port is NOT open or is unreachable, and thus remote access refuses to work.
From your post, I take it that it was only using the wireless connection when I had them bridged through the control panel? I've seen a lot of people have problem getting port forward to work with 2 routers, if I made my PC the bridge to router 2, then it was workinb because router 2 was not between this pc and router 1. So I need the bridge to work like that, even in bridge mose, it must be giving me double NAT then? On another forum, Tom's hardware, I was told these router's don't have a bridged mode, what they call bridge mode isn't actual bridging... "Actual" bridging removes the NAT services from the bridged router, so I'm assuming r6300's bridge mode does not do that? Anyway to make it work as it is in bridge mode, but removing it's NAT service so I don't have double NAT?
EDIT: To fix double NAT for plex, I've read that I need to open the port from router 1 to router 2, then router 2 to my pc (or some similar combination, maybe just router 2 to 1, something like that) but it's impossible to do as the r6300v2 greys out the port forwarding in bridged mode and does not allow me to make edits to the bridged router.
Here is my router 2 settings, showing everything greyed out. I can't really change ANY settings in bridged mode, except the ones shown here.
