I'm attempting to remote administer a Netgear router but having a difficult time. The current setup is as follows : I have a Cayman DSL modem with a static (real) Ip address on the WAN side and a DHCP Nat on its LAN side (The Modem has 4 ports on back). I have connected one of the ports to a netgear router. So the Netgear router is set to DHCP and get an adress of 192.168.0.1 from the Cayman Modem. Then the Netgear router has a 192.168.10.X subnet that it shares via DHCP to its clients. I am forwarding port 8080 on the Cayman modem to 192.168.0.1 and since the Netgear router has that address i figured i could now remote administer it, but its not working. I enabled remote admin on the router, set it to accept connections from "anyone" and set the port to 8080. I can remotely connect to the Cayman modem from outside the network but the port wont forward to the netgear modem.

that Cayman is a router not just a modem. Does it have a DMZ? If so try setting the netgear on that and then see if you can access it remotely. Are you doing a ip reservation on the cayman to assure that the netgear's wan gets that address every time? Why are you doing router to router anyway? Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search

rethinking here Netgear remote management wants you to go to the public ip address for access. Since your "public" ip is on the cayman and you are using private ip for the netgear I don't see how you can get thru the cayman to the netgear remotely. Perhaps if the cayman can be put in bridge mode and the public ip goes on the netgear wan it would work then. Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search

The netgear WAN receives the same address from the Cayman modem because its the only device plugged into it. I theorized that i would try and connect to the public ip (which currently gives me the Cayman Remote Admin page) but forward port 8080 to the internal 192.168.0.1 address which is the Netgear Router. I think Cayman calls it Pinholes rather than port forwarding. I want to attempt what you suggested...turning off the NAT and DHCP on the Cayman and trying to get everything static, maybe that would change things....?