RV120 Bridged with DSL modem/router

Hello,
I am working overseas for a small company, trying to get an RV120 VPN router to connect to our network back home. Part of the problem is that I have to use a DSL modem here which is also a router, and so the WAN IP given to the modem is not the same one used by the VPN router.
Do we need to create a bridge between the two routers so that the VPN router can use the WAN IP from the ISP instead of a DHCP address on the local network? Or is this the wrong approach?
Any assistance is appreciated. I am a software engineer, not a networking/IT person so most of this is unfamiliar to me.
Thanks,
Dan

The DSL router does have VLAN capabilities, would that help? I briefly tried the DMZ solution, but didn't seem to make any progress. So when using the DMZ, would the VPN router still have an IP relative to the DSL router (10.1.1.x, etc. in this case, if the DSL router is 10.1.1.1), or should it try to takeover the actual WAN IP that the router uses?
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Thank you for reaching Small Business Support Community.
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