This is a beginner question, not one of those Complex General ones that creep into this hex for dummies forum.
Okay when I had my hex in test mode - attached to second IP of Cable modem was hooked up to my PC, I could send and receive email with ease.
I put the hex in house mode -attached to both FIber and Cable Modem and house LAN and I can no longer SEND emails..........
Prior to the full hookup I did a wireshark capture from my PC which showed a back and forth hello and eventually a goodbye with the email server during a successful send event.
On the hex log, I found the associated allow LAN to WAN forward filter rule from my PC to the EMAIL Server IP of the cable provider. Thus far looked good.
However when I attempted same with full blown setup, no joy on send.
Scenario
ROUTES
VLAN BELL Fiber is distance 1, ping gateway
The route I made dest=0000/0 gateway IP etc........... was reachable.
(I had a successful internet connection with this connection)
EASTLINK CABLE is distance 2
The route I made dest=0000/0 and gateway IP of Eastlink was reachable.
The EMAIL Eastlink Cable Route
I made dest=IP of email server, gateway IP of Eastlink was reachable.
Since I could reach the email without the primary WAN connection I concluded that none of my filter, or raw rules were getting in the way.
Nevertheless I turned them off one by one to ascertain any change but none occurred.
What can I be missing in my logic chain LOL.
(Sob promised me that my magical router would always find a route LOL).