How Can You Tell If Bridged?

[JacobStar910]

Hello!

I am building a new router and since I don't have a modem or spare money to buy one, I noticed that my current router has a coax input and acts like a modem & a router. I followed a tutorial on how to bridge this specific router and I don't know if I did it successfully.

How can you tell if it's bridged correctly? I get internet and also the internet LED on the old router I'm trying to bridge is orange instead of green. I can no longer connect to that router even if I hook my ethernet directly into the rear.

I've done ipConfig in the CMD too and saw I don't have a default gateway with that router, is this all normal? No gateway, internet access, or even access into that router anymore while hooked into it?

Thanks!

 

[unksol]

If you bridged it it is only going to serve as a modern. Nothing more. Your new router is going to control everything including getting the ISP IP. You can't use the old ones Ethernet ports anymore since you turned off the router portion.

 

[JacobStar910]

If you bridged it it is only going to serve as a modern. Nothing more. Your new router is going to control everything including getting the ISP IP. You can't use the old ones Ethernet ports anymore since you turned off the router portion.

Oh okay so that's a good sign so far I believe, so is it safe to say that it's been done correctly? Is there any tell-tell signs other than that?