winbox loader behind firewall

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Hi eveyone,

im using winbox on linux fedora 7 using wine and almost everything works great. my one problem is in the winbox loader when i click on the browse button it will not auto-populate with addresses. winbox work great if i manually type in an ip address. i have found it is a firewall issue. when i disable my firewall it will work but id like to keep the firewall on. does any one know what port the loader is using. iv opened port 8291 (i think thats the port winbox uses?) and port 80. the loader still does not work properly. any suggestions are welcome.

Thank you,
Neil

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Try UDP port 5678

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That is the correct port if you are connecting by IP, but if you use the mac-winbox connection, it connects to UDP port 20561.

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If connecting via IP address w/ winbox it will make an outbound TCP connection using dst port 8291.

When you click on the … (browse button), winbox will send out a UDP broadcast packet w/ src port 5678
Any Mikrotik box’s that have discovery turned on should respond w/ a brodcast packet w/ dst port 5678
When the computer receives this it will add an entry in the drop down box in Winbox.

If connecting via MAC address w/ winbox it will send out UDP broadcast w/ dst port 20561

Hope this helps.

-Louis

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Thank you every one for the quick replys. i opened ports 5678 and all is working great.

Thanks again,
Neil