Different Subnet will not ping

I am using 192.168.1.1 as my main network. I have an ip camera system which uses 192.168.254.0/24. The addresses are given out by the nvr, not the router. I want to be able to ping the 192.168.254.x addresses to monitor them. Right now my firewall is blocking this. I know this because if I disable the firewall, it works. How can I enable 192.168.254.0/24 in my firewall so that it will allow me to ping?

Enabling firewall rule is with accept action, forward chain. Hard to say more as you haven’t disclosed the network topology.

So I would have to accept 192.168.254.0/24 and forward it?

Do you have an example of this?

Anyone have an example of this?

Just taking a stab in the dark that your filter rule(s) are the ones blocking this so here is a snippet that you would put in the /ip firewall filter table:

/ip firewall filter
add chain=forward disabled=no src-address=192.168.254.0/24
add chain=forward disabled=no dst-address=192.168.254.0/24

Somewhere before the filter rules that block it…

Without more information on your /ip firewall settings no one is going to be able to help much more than this…

Thom

My firewall is similar to the one by efaden in this post:

http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/need-help-with-firewall/71730/1

‘Similar to’ is not the same as ‘exactly like’. With that being said, post an export of your firewall settings and we’ll help. Without it, it’s a waste of time to try and guess exactly what you have there.

Thom