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R6700 Port Forwarding Not Working
Hello, I have tried numerous times to get any of my ports to open on my router, and despite many different efforts to get them open, I have had no success. Things I have tried (In coalition with ea...
I tried redoing the bridging process today, and doing this miraculously fixed my problem. I guess something went wrong the first time I put the modem-router into bridge mode.
All is fixed and ports open normally.
>What, exactly, is this "a modem-router"? "bridged" is a specific
technical term. Do you mean that the R6700 (WAN/Internet port) is
connected to this "a modem-router" (LAN port), or that the "a
modem-router" is in bridge mode, so that it's acting as only a modem, or
what?
I have the modem-router in bridge mode so it is only acting as modem. From now on I will just refer to it as the modem and the R6700 as the router. Sorry for the confusion.
>With two routers, "my router" is a little ambiguous.
Copy+paste of some actual port-forwarding rules would be clearer than
any explanation of what you think they're supposed to be doing.
I have tried to copy and paste but it seems to delete my post so here is a picture.
If I have missed anything please let me know. Thank you.
I tried redoing the bridging process today, and doing this miraculously fixed my problem. I guess something went wrong the first time I put the modem-router into bridge mode.
All is fixed and ports open normally.