Bridging customer owned routers to Telus router/equipment

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With reference to this old thread from the Telus com forum:

https://forum.telus.com/t5/Home/Brid...%20its%20place.

When turning on bridge mode on the T3200M, do you really have to turn off Wi-Fi and NOT use the LAN ports 2,3,4 on the T3200M? Why can't the Wi-Fi and the remaining LAN ports from the T3200M be shared with the Wi-Fi and LAN ports from the customer supplied router, all on one local network? Is that not possible or not how bridging works? Would there be IP conflicts and/or non communitive LAN IP addressing between the two routers? Are they not sharing the same gateway address and WAN? Can't the two routers use the same LAN gateway address (ie 192.168.1.254), same subnet mask and LAN IP pool? Can not we use two LAN I/O from the Nokia G-G240-A ONT, one to the T3200M and one to another router, both bridged together, distributing the Wi-Fi and LAN ports throughout the home? Can not two routers be connected to the ONT, share the same gateway address, LAN IP pool and have the same cloned MAC address?


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