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Papa_Rick707
Aspirant
Apr 03, 2021

Night Hawk R8000 and Netgear Armor

I recently set my Nighthawk router up in the bridge mode and it is connected to a Unifi Dream Machine. I have a subscription to Netgear Armor that did show up in the app protecting devices prior to changing to the Bridge Mode. Now that I am in Bridge Mode the Armor does not show up in the app or on the Router's Home Screen.

Is Armor still active and working or will it not work in Bridge Mode?

If Armor will not work in Bridge Mode is there any advantages to using Bridge Mode vs just having it as a router connected to my Dream Machine? I do have DHCP disabled on the Nighthawk.

Thanks in advance.

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  • antinode's avatar
    antinode
    Guru
    Apr 03, 2021

    > I recently set my Nighthawk router up in the bridge mode [...]

     

       What, exactly, does "in the bridge mode" mean to you in this context?
    I don't see a "bridge mode" in the R8000 User Manual.  Do you mean that
    you configured it as a wireless access point, or what, exactly?  How,
    exactly, did you do whatever you did?

     

    > Is Armor still active and working or will it not work in Bridge Mode?

     

       I'd expect Armor to be a router function, and I would not expect it
    to work in any alternative functional mode (wireless bridge, WAP, ...).

     

    > If Armor will not work in Bridge Mode is there any advantages to using
    > Bridge Mode vs just having it as a router connected to my Dream
    > Machine?


       I know nothing about your "my Dream Machine".

     

       Assuming that "in Bridge Mode" here means "as a WAP", then the
    principal advantage of that mode over full-function router mode would be
    that as a WAP, it would not be creating new problems (such as "double
    NAT") when you connected it to another router.


    > I do have DHCP disabled on the Nighthawk.

     

       Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
    for Documentation.  Get the User Manual (at least).  Read.  Look for
    "Use the Router as a Wireless Access Point".

     

       If you use the documented method, then there's no need to do anything
    explicitly with the DHCP server.  If you used some ad-hoc WAP scheme,
    then that'd be a required step.  But it wouldn't help you with Armor.