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iTerentius
Aspirant
May 02, 2020

RAX120 port-forwarding

I've just replace my Velop Mesh network with the RAX120. Eveyrthing works fine except for port-forwarding. I have a static IP from my fiber company, I have reserved IPs for each device I want to access (say for VNC, SFTP and other things), as well as created external and internal TCP/UDP ports for various service pointing to these devices. This was exactly mirroring my my older setup which worked fine. 

 

I also have the VPN service turned on (not VPN client). Lastly I have a domain A record from my domain host pointing at my static IP. I've verifeid that my static IP pings back from that domain and that that IP is actually my routers WAN IP. 

 

However, I cannot access any services from outside my network like I was able to with the Linksys Velop. 

 

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? 

 

Thanks!

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    iTerentius
    Aspirant
    May 02, 2020

    Update: The one port I was trying to test with was going to a computer with Express VPN turned on, thus hidden and not working (other ports to other devices do work). However, now I'm wondering if there is any way to get the port to forward inside my network to the computer via local IP? Maybe a dumb question. I have an FTP server set up but would also prefer to keep the Express VPN running.