Port Forwarding seemed simple, but...

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I want to forward inbound connections from the public WAN on a specific port to the same port on a specfic machine on my LAN. I have found/used several rules to do this but they must be incorrect as they affect outbound stuff too.

Assuming my public IP is 64.232.1.29
Port to forward is 8073
IP and Port on LAN machine is 192.168.1.73 8073

what is the correct /ip firewall nat command I should use?

Sorry if this seems simple and a redundant question but none of the examples or guidance I found so far work

Thanks

Jim

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check out Para E - https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=182373

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Thank You!..

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that guidance lead me to try

/ip firewall nat add chain=dstnat dst-port=8073 action=dst-nat protocol=tcp to-address=192.168.1.73 to-port=8073

but that is what I already had that doesn’t work as I need

That interferes with outbound traffic, whereas I only want to forward inbound.

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No the guidance certainly did not!!

Where is the dst-address=WANIP of the router for fixed//static WANIP OR
where is the out-interface-list=WAN for dynamic wanip or any variation needed for hairpin NAT.

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Thanks again… let me re-read that again…

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Fixed it for ya
(another clue that you didnt is the fact that you still have both dst-port and to-port LOL )

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fixed…