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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. ...
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
Quite: 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.
Yes, I tested on PR60X.
No, that is not how you should test it, you need to test it
wan_port_ip_or_ddns_domain_name:3001
i.e. you visit external port of external IP, it will be forwarded to internal port of internal IP
I tested it on my WAN IP. I'm trying to forward my WAN IP to a web server. I've done it dozens of times on dozens of other routers with all kinds of services beyond apache. I cannot forward any public WAN IP ports to any local network ports. It's beyond aggravating to struggle on such a trivial problem with no help from netgear themselves (i contacted them separately). I set the router up, and the internet worked. I didn't configure anything beyond the WAN2 static IP (I cant use the WAN1 because it's not 10G). I then tried port forwarding and it hasn't worked. I then started debugging and created the firewall rule to enable all traffic, tried everything I can think of and nothing works.
I really appreciate the community members who are trying to help. I understand that you're all netgear fans since you're here otherwise you wouldn't be here. So far I think netgear is terrible (sorry).
I'm going to abandon this router and never buy netgear products again. I'm setting up several server racks at multiple offices, and the amount of time wasted on this is unacceptable.
I'm shocked the WAN1 port is only 1G/2.5G and not 10G as well. Netgear was a good "bang for buck" spec sheet, but I see why now. It's unfortunate this office took awhile to get the fiber hooked up, because we bought the unit in December so I cannot even return it. I'll have to ebay it and take the loss.
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