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Port Forwarding of mixed ports does not work
I am having a port forwarding issue with this router. I used to use a Pf Sense full blown BSD machine, but since the motherboard died in it, I had to get something up and running fast, and grabbed t...
Thank you again for your initial reply. I'm going to mark this as solved.
The issue was not the router at all. After further digging into the unit it is trying to connect to, the gateway was mis-configured.
Again, thank you for taking your time to reply.
>> [...] can be reached by using internal IPs directly, on their
>> respective ports of 22 and 80.
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>Should also work (from a system on your LAN) if you specify the
>router's WAN/Internet IP addesss and the appropriate external port
>number (verifying NAT loopback).
I agree that it should but does not.
>> Firmware: V1.1.0.86_1.0.1
>
>Try something different/older?
I honestly do not have the time to arbitrarilly pick an older firimware revision to test, and if it doesn't work, keep walking backwards.
>> [...] grabbed this router. [...]
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>New, off a store shelf (or equivalent)?
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>Exercise the 90-day free support offer? Or the warranty?
The router is over 90 days from the date of purchase. Again, I can not afford much down time with this issue, since I work remotely. With this virus going around, I can't just easily go grab antother one off the shelf, or wait a week or two for a replacement.
On a side note though, while waiting for a reply, I do have another router exactly identical, that is on it's own network, and uplink etc.. (not related to this network) and it does have the mixed port forwarding, which does work, so I'm stumped on this one. I just got done going through every single setting between the two of them, and everything is identical in regards to NAT / WAN / LAN setups. Just different IPs on that network, and their respective port forwrds. The other router that does work, is the exact same model, and firmware revision.
Thank you again for your initial reply. I'm going to mark this as solved.
The issue was not the router at all. After further digging into the unit it is trying to connect to, the gateway was mis-configured.
Again, thank you for taking your time to reply.
> The issue was not the router at all. [...]
Thanks for the update. Considering the low incidence of similar
complaints (yours plus no others?), user error seemed likely.