Hello everyone, first and foremost I am a total newbie, when it comes to RouterOS I’m like Alice in wonderland and this is exactly why I’m posting this. I have been for the past 2 days looking up how to do port forwarding on a Mikrotik router and have seen different people do it in different ways and I’m afraid of messing things up.
I have managed to figure out I should add a new rule in the NAT tab, but it all goes downhill from there I have no clue if the chain is “srcnat” or “dstnat” or what my “In. Interface” should be, and what else I should do.
So if anyone has set up the port forwarding for GTA Online or knows how to can you please help me out? (these are the ports if it helps UDP: 6672, 61455-61458)
Hi.
I’d recommend you doing some basic online network courses 1st up to get basic network understanding.
You don’t do port-forwarding unless your running a local server people connect to. Don’t confuse connecting to an external server’s Port requirements to having your own server, they network flow acts very differently throu the router and you do not need to configure port forwarding in that case.
That said, if your running a server people connect to and want to do it in Mikrotik and you have a very basic setup like.
[WAN(your internet connection with a PUBLIC IP) ]--------[Mikrotik Router]-------------[Your server on a PRIVATE IPv4 RANGE(say 192.168.88.2 / 24(subnet bits in CIDR notation) ]
There are plenty of Mikrotik guides for this type of port forwarding.
Take note where you see 192.168.88.xx, usually means( .88. ) something to do with a ‘Default configuration’ from mikrotik, not necessarily how you network is. I certainly don’t use default configs!
Then there are heaps of guides on port forwarding ( you just adjust for your internal(private) IP range and your traffic type e.g UDP / TCP and their associated port numbers e.g
Dont forget about network security firewall rules(basic ones will suffice) and add an admin password too if your mikrotik is directly connected to a public IP address.
