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dbrb2
Apprentice
Jan 10, 2022

RBR750 port forwarding rule

I have set up my Orbi RBR750 and, although the app seemed quite buggy, after a few itterations it worked as desired.    However, I am struggling to find a way to set up port forwarding that specifi...
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dbrb2
Apprentice
Jan 10, 2022

Thanks - yes, I found that. 

That allows for inboudn rules, but does not seem to allow for more specific rules - allowing that forward ONLY for a given remote external IP 

 

It might be that this simply isn't a feature provided by the Orbi, though it seems a bit odd given if that is the case, given it is a fairly common requirement. 

 

The unit also does not seem to manage local dns...? So if I have a device with hostname "thing" and I try to ping it, the ORBI will not resolve that. Instead I wouod have to rely on mDns

 

I can work around both of these issues by using the Orbi in AP mod ans using openWrt to do my routing, but again local DNS resolving seems a very basic feature, so I wonder whether perhaps I have just missed the setting....