said by Taylortbb 
:said by canadabound :In that case if your modem has the option for a DMZ you could just DMZ all traffic from the modem to the router and then on the router use dhcp etc as normal. That way you won't have to do the double port forwarding.
There's still the issue of NAT connection tracking and so on. It does solve port forwarding but I consider option 2 to be much better, that's how I have it setup. In the long run it will just have fewer issues. All that is lost is 2 LAN ports, and switches are cheap these days.
I only have a need for 1 wired connection everything else is wireless. I might try your idea although it seems weird that everyone would need to do this? Or is it only for people who want to run the DMT utility?
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