I’ve almost have the Mikrotik the way I need it, only one problem. I’m having connection problems on the ethernet device that has the public address that connects me to the internet. Jus for testing I opened everything up in the firewall in and out and this is what happens. I can connect to the device through winbox for a short period of time over the internet then it drops. I sent a constant ping to the mikrotik and there are times when it will ping (quite good ping times) then it will just drop for long periods of time, then it will come back up. Even though I opened up the firewall, am I still dealing with a firewall problem? Or has it become a routing issue, I’ve placed the same IP address in another device (A netgear router) and everything works ok.
Here’s what I’ve done
Reset the configuration 4 times
Turned Long-cable on ethernet port to yes
Opened up the firewall on both in and out ports.
Thanks for the idea, I tried switching ports on the router to see if that change anything but it didnt. I turned rip on and setup a firewall rule that would allow traffic from the office class C (That rule didnt change much). After I turned on RIP that helped the problem but I’m still droppping packets, not as much..but still dropping.
I’ve seen a similar problem when bridging interfaces, but I’m afraid I don’t know the cause, I just got rid of the bridge and used a different scheme. So, I would say it is something to do with the bridge settings.
vpatton: try pinging the router of your ISP. You can also try with some other OS (like Windows). Just look is there the same problem. If so the problem is not in your “TV”
