Forward and Input on filter, question?

RouterOS General
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If I first put forward rule to accepting all the ports, then some rules for input ports to router and finally drop all via input.

Means to my clients all the ports are released by forward or only those accepted in the input?

It works like this? Or gotta release input for the forward work?


Thanks

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I do not fully understand your question, but forward rules are for traffic going through the router, whilst input chain is used for traffic destined for the router itself. So they both serve a different purpose.