Can’t forward ‘input traffic’
Mikrotik RB 11, OS 6.23.
It is used as internet firewall edge router for a business. Webserver and email server behind it.
It has a public IP address.
Problem: no incoming internet traffic on ports 80 or 25 gets through, despite NAT and filter rules allowing them.
Old cisco router allows ok.
I suspect that the default ‘accept’ rule for all packets is catching the 80 and 25 packets, as the public IP of the websites (hosted on LAN) is also the IP of the WAN port: ergo the web / mail traffic is ‘input’, having the microtik router as it’s destination IP.
How can I get the microtik to forward traffic on specific ports, when the destination IP is the router itself?
Do I need another router, and put the microtik in bridge mode?