How disable the NVG589 modem/router firewall so that I can just use my routers firewall

[Camry2731]

So I just got a Nighthawk X4 (Thanks for the help on selecting that) and there is a double NAT problem going on because my router has a firewall as well as the modem provided by AT&T because its like a combined unit. So as the title says how do I remove that firewall, or somehow get around it?

 

[fudgecakes99]

you can make exceptions in the modem firewall by going into your browsers url and typing 192.168.1.254 it should send you to home, just remember your routers password, and go from their.

 

[Camry2731]

Ok.... But I already know how to do that, so how do I add the exception?

 

[bill001g]

In general the firewall does nothing by default it is set to allow everything. There may be some minor rules that attempt to prevent attacks against the router itself.

I suspect more you want to get rid of the double nat.

It depends on the device att provides...I am too lazy to look it up. You want to put it in bridge mode which makes it only a modem. Problem is many of the att uverse offering you can not do that. This is especially true if you get tv from them because the router is used to get information for the set top boxes. You best hope in those cases is to put your second router in the DMZ of the att device. You will still have 2 levels of nat but it does solve some issues related to double nat.

 

[Camry2731]

In general the firewall does nothing by default it is set to allow everything. There may be some minor rules that attempt to prevent attacks against the router itself.

I suspect more you want to get rid of the double nat.

It depends on the device att provides...I am too lazy to look it up. You want to put it in bridge mode which makes it only a modem. Problem is many of the att uverse offering you can not do that. This is especially true if you get tv from them because the router is used to get information for the set top boxes. You best hope in those cases is to put your second router in the DMZ of the att device. You will still have 2 levels of nat but it does solve some issues related to double nat.

Yes, I'm trying to get rid of the double NAT, which I know has to be possible. About Uverse, even if I made it into a bridge, it should still work because I have it hooked up into the Ethernet on the back. I've tried to look into the bridge mode on my modem/router but I've not found anything that links to it. When I was troubleshooting my Netgear router I asked the assistant if she knew how to do it, she said yes, but couldn't do it due to restrictions. Anyway, she said to do something along the lines of a full bridge mode with a public IP address. Not sure how to do that though, so any help would be nice

 

[bill001g]

The option will be in the setting if you can do it. There are many discussions of this on a lot of forums. It seems ATT has a management interface that only they can get into and they do not let you see the option to put it in bridge mode. It depends on the device and plans you get. The so called uverse that is really just DSL you can put your own modems in. The VDSL ones or their other fiber type offerings you are pretty much stuck with their crappy modem/router in the path.

I know the one I was helping someone with had a DMZ option. It also let you do one to one nat...but he had a business account with multiple IP. It was still a pain the butt because we were putting a commercial router behind it and wanted it to get multiple ip.