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Orbi Port forwarding
I am currently having issue with orbi port forwarding where the port forward does not work until I login into the router's management web interface. Is this normal ? I have simple setup where mo...
Found the source of the issue... So I am having this issue because my ISP is doing NAT444 (Carrier-Grade NAT).
This is how I found out. When I did trace route my first hope was orbi which is normal, but my second hope was not my WAN IP but some public IP of my ISP. So if anyone is having similar issue do above test if your ISP is doing some sort of NAT in their core system then port forwarding might have some issues.
Thank you everything for your contribution.
Found the source of the issue... So I am having this issue because my ISP is doing NAT444 (Carrier-Grade NAT).
This is how I found out. When I did trace route my first hope was orbi which is normal, but my second hope was not my WAN IP but some public IP of my ISP. So if anyone is having similar issue do above test if your ISP is doing some sort of NAT in their core system then port forwarding might have some issues.
Thank you everything for your contribution.
Great to hear you found the problem. I presume you have to have the ISP configure something for you so your PF configuration works?