Copying router settinf from one to another

[Bad boy Warrior]

I have 2 routers and want to make a backup of it incase it ever goes down. Im confused with some of the terminology used on each router. As a start the old router has a "Public router address" and the new router has no such thing but it has inbound filter along with the options:

Filter Name:

Protocol: TCP/UDPTCPUDPICMP

Source IP address:

Source Subnet Mask:

Source Port (port or port:port):

Destination IP address:

Destination Subnet Mask:

Destination Port (port or port:port):

Would you agree these two are the same? my new router is a d-link 2740B http://www.dlink.co.uk/?go=gNTyP9CgrdFOIC4...DrpySdA/4kBB9o=

Thanks

[nitroshift]

You are talking about 2 different things on 2 different devices. The .ini file that stores the configuration will have a different structure and therefore will be useless. You are better off reading the user manuals of both routers to find out the similarities and how you can configure the new one based on the old`s one settings.

[Bad boy Warrior]

Ok i did read the manuals for both without luck but have got a bit further since i reseted the new router. I have successfully set up the internet connection but on the old router i have Public Network then it has an EXTERNAL IP address along with a subnet. I found out that this is the external default gateway for us.

Now in general terms i would have thought this would have been the WAN default gateway (on the new router) but i only have inbound and outbound filter. The manual doesnt give much of an explanation but overall i would have forwarded this external IP address to our server's local IP but the old router doesnt seem to have anything being forwarded. So should i risk it and see what happens or am i missing something here?

The way i come to this is by pinging our IP address (local) for the router - i get a reply - place the new router instead of old (same IP address) and dont get a reply. I then think maybe its because the firewall may have blocked it so went into the browser to the routers homepage and still no luck.

thanks