Hi all,
I am planning to get an RB4011 router, and I would need to open a port for my NVR.
I am NOT a professional IT tech, just a homeowner. I was able to do it on my Netgear AC1900, after trial and error.
How difficult would it be to forward one port to another?
I tried to run a Winbox demo but it would not connect to anything.
Thanks
If you start off from default configuration (a wise decission IMHO), then adding a fowarded port is pretty simple (using web interface, but in winbox it’s the same procedure): select IP → firewall from menu, then click NAT tab, then click “Add New” button. Then you have to fill in a few fields: select “dstnat” from the list of chains, select “WAN” from list of in-interface-lists, select appropriate protocol (e.g. TCP), type in dst-port (the WAN port to be forwarded), select “dst-nat” from the list of possible actions, type in LAN server’s IP address as to-addresses and type in port number on LAN server as to-ports. After that click OK and you’re done.
There are many other properties that can be set, but they should mostly be left unset.
Forwarding a single port from the WAN IP to some LAN IP is a matter of adding a single rule to the default firewall configuration. IP->Firewall->NAT, add a rule, chain=dstnat, action=dst-nat, protocol=TCP (probably), in-interface-list=WAN, dst-port=xxx, to-addresses=some.private.ip.address, to-ports=yyy (if required; if xxx can stay, no to-ports value is necessary).
Port forwarding is relatively straight forward in terms of Mikrotik config, but compared to consumer routers, it can be daunting.
However lots of folks here will get you in the right direction.
Suffice to say the router with default settings is capable of port forwarding and one just needs to add a destination nat rule relative to the server.
The RB4011 is a beast of a router, you cannot go wrong with that choice.