why do I have blinking yellow light after setting up Motorola modem with airport extreme

Frankly I would like to turn off NAT on the Motorola SBG 6580, and have the Extreme do all the NAT and DHCP functions- although to be perfectly honest I don't know if I FULLY understand all that in depth.

But when I "Disable" "NATP mode", which is how it is named in the Motorola Basic setup, I lost access to the Network in general.

I could probably try again...but this is so trying.

I read a few other threads and haven't come across one that said "This is how to do it...Trust me..."

Life would be tons easier if you could replace the SBG 6580 with something like a SB 6141.

The 6141 is a modem only....not a router.

Then you could run the AirPort in DHCP and NAT with no Double NAT errors and no worries about possible leakage from one subnet to another.

you are so right.

i don't know why i spaced out on this.

i went through it a few months ago.

and now i dread going through another 6 techs a nd 2 hours to get another modem "provisioned"