Port forwarding weird issue

RouterOS General
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As described here https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Firewall/NAT I’ve created a rule to forward external port 65000 onto 192.168.1.4 port 65000:

/ip firewall nat add chain=dstnat dst-port=65000 action=dst-nat protocol=tcp to-address=192.168.1.4 to-port=65000

once that is done I can’t establish outgoing connection to any host to port 65000 from my local network anymore.

2

it worked when I’ve configured my WAN ip as dst-address, so this Wiki needs updating…

3

The wiki and the manual mentioned are fine, you just need to parse them properly.

4

“You forgot to hook up the doll.”

You didn’t use an interface or dst-address.

Ergo, your rule grabbed any connection to 6500 and routed it locally.