Time Capsule Bridge Mode

I know this is one is really going to be silly but let me set up my situation. My TC crashed like a lot of people's did. I had the power supply (or whatever they did) replaced and reinstalled the unit and all is fine. There were setting changes however that they told me wouldn't happen but thats water under the bridge for now. My TC is connected to a Linksys router and then I connect my Imac directly to the TC. All the connections work fine but the one issue I have is that my wired network which I have a few windows computers cannot see my Imac. It can see my TC but will not allow me to go through it to the computer. If I connect my Imac to my linksys wireless connection, then all is visible to the network.
Here comes the dumb part. SInce I set the original system up two years ago, I recall a similar issue but do not remember what I did. It seems through further research I need to go to bridge mode and I assume then the Imac will get an IP address from my linksys. On the connection sharing page for the TC I have "share a public IP address". Do I simply change to "bridge"?
Am I way off base?

Thanks for the quick reply. I thought I had it but when one doesn't deal with setup issues often, there is a reluctance to make changes without considering unintended consequences.

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    IP Address - (Provided Automatically)
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