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jacoscar
Joining in
5 months ago

Port forwarding not working in modem mode

Hello, I've just switched to virgin media from Vodafone.

I have a TP-Link AX1800 Wi-Fi 6 Router that I was using in conjunction with the vodafone router. The WAN port of the TP-Link router was connected to the Vodafone router.

The vodafone router didn't have a modem mode, so was being used with WiFi off and DMZ on set to the ip of the tp-link router. Port forwarding was setup on the tp-link router.

Now, I've just replaced the Vodafone router with the Virgin Hub 3.0, which I've set to modem mode. I thought nothing needed to change on my own router (that's the main reason for me to use my own router), but port forwarding doesn't seem to be working.

There are no configurable options on the Virgin Router when in modem mode.

What can I do?

  • legacy1's avatar
    legacy1
    Alessandro Volta

    Your true WAN IP is passed to your router and incoming traffic is just forwarded their is no need for Port forwarding in modem mode.

    What traffic is blocked?

  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
    Very Insightful Person

    Any port forwarding is done on your own TP-Link router. Modem mode on VM hubs means you do no configuration changes on the hub, it act just as a bridge between the WAN and your router.