Port forwarding problems..

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Hello to all, I do know that there are a lot of people that asked the same question, this one I do believe is a little different… I am kind of a newbie on Mikrotik RouterOS and although I did read through the Wiki (tried all the suggestions there) I cant seem to enable either port forwarding or UPNP on my RBL2011 router…

Let me explain the issue in a little more detail:

I am trying to install a new Xclaim Xi1 AP and I want to connect it to its dedicated cloud manager… In order for that to happen I need to port forward ports 443 (TCP) and 123 (UDP) through the NAT/Firewall.. This configuration though should be done for both OUT → IN and IN → OUT.. Sounds easy right???

Well I did follow the manuals on the Wiki (for example http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Forwarding_a_port_to_an_internal_IP and http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Firewall/NAT#Destination_NAT) I have also tried out the suggestions from established forum posts from other clients that had a similar issue…

Basically what I did was:

  1. Created port forwarding rules in NAT
  2. Enabled UPNP (also selected proper external/internal interfaces)
  3. Also tried playing around with firewall rules

I really do think I messed things up so I decided to factory reset the appliance and start-over from scratch..

Is it possible that someone can at least give me a few points on how I should make the configuration???

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I think you only should need to do a inbound nat - from “internet” to you AP. Outbound should work “out of box” if you enable src-nat masqurade.

Add src-nat masqurade
add dst nat action dst-nat to port “xxx” protocol “” in interface"waninterface" to address - ip of your AP.

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Xclaim requires No Port Forwarding.

It calls out to its “Cloud Manager”. You connect out to the Cloud Manager. AS long as you have the unit set up on a network that allows it to connect to the internet… you are done.