Bobcat Miner 300 Relayed

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 8:05am

hi I have a Bobcat Miner 300 and its currently in a Relayed status.

My current setup is I have a Mikrotik LHG LTE and a Mikrotik HAP AC Lite all provided by the ISP.

When plugging in the Bobcat Miner 300 it had automatically created the port forwarding of 44158 and I have created a static IP for the Bobcat Miner.

However the Bobcat is still in a state of Relayed and its really frustrating.

Also when using online sites to check if the port forward is successful its saying that port 44158 is closed. What I find strange is the its asking me to input my public IP address however on the port forward done automatically the IP address is that of the HAP AC Lite.

Can anyone help me please and Merry Christmas.

normis · December 24, 2021, 8:18am

Can you clarify what is not actually working? I don’t know anything about Bobcat and what “relayed” means for it

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 8:21am

https://docs.helium.com/troubleshooting/network-troubleshooting/

this explains what it means on point number 3.

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 1:03pm

can anyone help?

anav · December 24, 2021, 2:52pm

Sure but I need two things
Network diagram to understand the topology
and second your config

/export hide-sensitive file=anynameyouwish.

By the way, port showing as closed is normal… t

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 3:13pm

basically on my miner I need port 44158 open and at the moment its open on the private IP but its not open on my public IP.

can you help me in getting the public IP to have port 44158 open as well please?

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 3:43pm

could it be that my ISP is blocking the port 44158 from being fully open?

anav · December 24, 2021, 3:55pm

For the last time
please post the config
/export hide-sensitive file=anynameyouwish

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 4:01pm

how do I post config?

anav · December 24, 2021, 4:08pm

Sorry my bad…
You go into winbox
scroll down to terminal
open a terminal and paste in there…

/export hide-sensitive file=anynameyouwish

The exported file will show up in your FILES MENU selection
Upload that to your desktop, and open in notepad ++
Just ensure that your WANIP or WANIP gateway don’t show on any of the lines (IP DHCP CLIENT or IP ROUTES).

T=hen copy and paste into here.
Best to use the code brackets around the paste - ( the white square brackets in the black square on the same line as BOLD, Underline etc…)

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 4:11pm

sorry as you probably guess im not tech savvy like you guys.

is there any other way I can help you to see what my issue is?

anav · December 24, 2021, 4:54pm

???
What do you use to configure the router??
The response is on the border line of go buy a linksys instead…

Select the file name, right click select download and place on your desktop.
Then open in notepad, and paste into a post…

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 5:02pm

okay I will download it later.

on another topic…how do I know if I have CGNAT or not on the Mikrotik?

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 5:11pm

the WinBox wont download on my Macbook, is there another way?

anav · December 24, 2021, 5:24pm

Egads I think folks use the WINE program for macs ?? check on the downloads page from MT website.

In the router enable IP Cloud.
Then check
a. the public IP on IP cloud
b. from brower run whats my IP and see what it gives you for a public IP
c. Check your IP DHCP client settings status etc and see what it says for public IP
d. Check your IP Routes to see what its pulling for your public IP.

If all the same tis good getting a real public IP.
IF not chances are you are getting a private IP.

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 5:25pm

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anav · December 24, 2021, 5:33pm

Lets clean up a few things

Modify this to look like…
/interface list member
add comment=defconf interface=lte1 list=WAN
add interface=bridge1 list=LAN
Same for this…
/ip address
add address=192.168.1.1/24 comment=defconf interface=bridge1 network=
192.168.1.0
Same
/ip firewall filter
add action=accept chain=input connection-state=established,related,untracked
add action=drop chain=input connection-state=invalid
add action=accept chain=input protocol=icmp
add action=accept chain=input in-interface-list=LAN
add action=drop chain=input comment=“drop all else”

add action=fasttrack-connection chain=forward comment=“defconf: fasttrack”
connection-state=established,related
add action=accept chain=forward connection-state=established,related,untracked
add action=drop chain=forward connection-state=invalid
add action=accept chain=forward in-interface-list=LAN out-interface-list=WAN
add action=drop chain=forward comment=“drop all else”
/ip firewall nat
add action=masquerade chain=srcnat comment=“defconf: masquerade”
ipsec-policy=out,none out-interface-list=WAN

why is uPNP enabled??

anav · December 24, 2021, 5:37pm

Since you probably want port forwarding add this rule as well.

add action=accept chain=forward in-interface-list=LAN out-interface-list=WAN
add action=accept chain=forward comment=“Allow Port Forwarding” connection-nat-state=dstnat
connection-state=new in-interface-list=WAN
add action=drop chain=forward comment=“drop all else”

You will need a destination nat rule for port forwarding as well.
Common format

add chain=dstnat action=dst-nat dst-port=xxxxx protocol=tcp
in-interface-list=WAN to-addresses=IPofServer

Sparky16 · December 24, 2021, 5:43pm

uPNP is enabled on default

anav · December 24, 2021, 6:08pm

Disable it then… not required.