Night Hawk R8000 and Netgear Armor

> 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.