recently I did some home networking stuff after I bought a new laptop to connect my modem/router to another cisco router with wifi capability.Take note that my modem/router has no wifi and only 1 ethernet port.
After some googling and trial and errors,I finally connect my pc and laptop to the internet via my cisco router.For my cisco router,I configured so it's different subnet and also routing mode to "router" instead of "gateway".However I'm puzzled as I can't detect my router via command "route print" or even see my cicso router lan ip in wireshark traces.

pc and laptop -----> cicso router -------> modem/router

it seem my cisco router is in invisible mode but my modem/router is visible from my pc and laptop,I can't see my cisco router ip in my wireshark traces or "route print" command but my modem/router is visible.

So is this normal ? my pc/laptop can connect to internet via my cisco router but my pc/laptop act as if my cisco router is invisible.

cicso router
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1.Routing mode to "router".(the others is gateway)
2.different subnet
3.disable dhcp

modem/router
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1.lan ip to 192.168.0.1 (default gateway)
2.same subnet as my pc/laptop
3.enable dhcp