WinBox Port

RouterOS General
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Is it possible to change the port WinBox uses to connect?

My install requires the use of 4 - x86 MT systems all sitting behind a Load Balancer. Each with about 500 concurrent users.

Load Balancer has public IP X.X.X.X and then gives the following static IP’s to my MT boxes.

MT 1 = 172.40.0.2
MT 2 = 172.40.0.3
MT 3 = 172.40.0.4
MT 4 = 172.40.0.5

Currently I have the default winbox port being foward to my MT 1 box but cant reach the other 3.

Is there a way to change the port that WinBox uses so I can reach all 4 MT boxes through my load balancer?

If there is no way to currently change the WinBox Port could MT add this feature in the next release of WinBox?

Stan

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Us Winbox menu IP / Services
Shange port for www to any you want.

I think you should reboot afterwards (not sure).

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This does not work, unless I am missing something. This only changes the port at which the MT unit listens on for http traffic.

I need to change the actual port that WinBox uses. i.e. from 8291 to 1024

In this way I could set my port foward up.

Winbox uses 1024 to connect - I foward port 1024 in my modem to the IP of my MT box at 172.40.0.2 to port 8291

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I would think a dst-nat with action redirect would work, but it doesn’t … seems winbox ignores port numbers now.

Sam

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I have tried dst-nat and a few other things I could think of and nothing seems to work.

I can’t beleive there is no way to make this happen, I would prefer to use MT on 20 or so of my deployments but if I can’t access multipule MT units from behind my load balancers I will have to go with other router software. I found 2 others that will allow remote management through port fowarding.

Perhaps MT guys can change WinBox in the next release to allow us to choose the port we want to use.

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yea i think this is the most asked question across the board…since im assuming you are needing to access many MT boxes Nat’d Behind 1 public IP the best and easiest solution is setup a quick / easy pptp vpn server on the MT router ( you ARE routing with mt RIGHT :slight_smile:) ) and then vpn in, and winbox to each MT’s IP …or do an EoIP tunnel between two MT’s and macWINBOX it up…

i’m sure there is a good reason we cant easily change the winbox port…


joe

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I am setting up my deployments with a Pep-Link 7-WAN load balancer.

My sites will have aprox 3000 concurrent users and I dont think a single MT x86 box can handle this amount of users. This is why I need to use several.

The load blancers are on public IP’s and the MT boxes are sitting on LAN ports 1~4. I can setup port fowarding and/or virtual servers in the load balancer but this does no good if WinBox can only access on a single port at 8291

If this is the most asked question accross the board why hasn’t MT done something about it?

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Any help on this one?
Anyone?

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The peplink equipment is complete crap! their tech support is good and helpful but the product is horrible…it ONLY HAS A WEB INTERFACE. What i tested was the Peplink Balence 300 it was a nightmare and actually was the reason I found MT hardware (as ironic as it is i WAS already using MT stuff on APs but i did not know it..)

Use MT if possible…peplink will take back the product and give you a refund as they did with me but there is only os much you can do with a web interface…

with reguards to your question remaing about the winbox port you didnt say why you cant use VPN…you may have a good reason but you have not stated it…just vpn into one of the RB’s and connect from there…

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The reason I use Peplink is for load balancing 7 WAN connections.

I have 2 in use now and have had no issues with them. As far as having web interface only, I dont have an issue with that as all I use it for is Load Balancing and virtual server setup to redirect ports to my other server and to my MT boxes

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and do any of your clients have session persistance problems…ie msn and instant messengers not being able to maintain connection?

EDIT: with 3000 conc. users how much bandwidth does this thing see?? just curious..

jo

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Have aprox 45mbps that runs through it pretty constant.
And I have not had complaints about IM

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Hi seniors ,

worth conversation