Port forwarding only works with Airport Express in bridge mode... what does it mean?

[AVR2]

I've been trying to set up port forwarding for Azureus on my Airport Express, and nothing worked until I remembered something I'd read on a port forwarding advice site and switched it into bridge mode.

Now the necessary ports are being forwarded perfectly and everything else about my wireless network seems fine (my wife's Windows laptop and my Wii both still connect normally), but I'm wondering if having the Express running in bridge mode is a good or bad thing? How is bridge mode different from the default mode?

 

[TEG]

Bridge mode just means that the Express is not acting as its own DHCP server. That way the addresses that the devices connected to it would get will come from either the host Airport system or Modem.

TEG

 

[alphaod]

Also bridge mode requires you to have an existing router that it's connected.

 

[AVR2]

OK, so given that everything "just works", I should forget about it and be happy?

 

[alphaod]

OK, so given that everything "just works", I should forget about it and be happy?

I guess so.

 

[AVR2]

I'll drink to that