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port forwarding doesnt work with PR60X router and M4300-48X switch
I am unable to get the public IP to forward to an internal IP. I've setup port forwarding many times, but I can't get it working on this equipment. I'm using a PR60X router and a M4300-48X switch. ...
Hi caleb87,
Welcome to the NETGEAR Community! 🙂
Did you configure the Port Forwarding as described on the link below?
https://kb.netgear.com/000065728/How-do-I-add-a-custom-port-forwarding-service-on-my-PR60X-router
If you already did and it is still not working, can you verify if you have anything connected to WAN1? Only one WAN can be active at a time and the second WAN is used as a failover. You can select which WAN to use as a primary under WAN - Internet/WAN - Dual WAN - Configuration - Primary WAN.
Have a lovely day,
RennaD
NETGEAR Team
Thank you for the suggestion. I only have one WAN connected, and it's to the WAN2 port because it's 10G and the WAN1 port is not 10G for some reason.
I still went into Dual WAN setting and set the primary to WAN2, but this has not enabled the port forwarding. I also tried to reboot the router after the changes. I'll also note that my firmware is updated to the most recent (v2.3.0.78).
I appreciate all the suggestions, and if anyone has any ideas at all I appreciate the help.
Hi Caleb,
I tested that the same port forwarding rule worked for both WAN1 and WAN2, below are steps of my test:
- Create customized service P10880 for port 10880.
- Create myhttps for port 443 - I am not sure why pre-defined https for port 443 is not showing up in drop down menu for port forward rule, will file a bug for it.
- Create port forward from P10880 (Any) to myhttps (Internal_Server).
- With signal WAN, test port forward https://WAN1_IP:10880/ it worked
- Now turn on dual WAN, test port forward https://WAN2_IP:10880/ it also worked
Please let us know what response you got when try to access internal service through port forwarding. Thanks.
That's what I would expect as well as a port forward is pretty simple. Did you do that with a PR60X router? If not, what model did you use?
Like your example, I just tried to forward a random port to port 80. The rule is setup like:
External Service: Custom (Port 3001)
Internal Service: HTTP (Port 80)
External IP: Any
Internal IP: 192.168.182.100
Enabled: True
If I go to 192.168.182.100:80 it works as expected, but if I go to 192.168.182.100:3001 it does not work.
My guess for problems are:
1) The Netgear M4300-48X switch (default configuration with no modifications; seems unlikely)
2) The router firewall configurations preventing a forward (default originally, but created a rule to allow any and all; also seems unlikely)
3) Something I haven't even considered
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