Hey guys .... hope that you are all well.
I'm having great difficulty with forwarding my ports in my mikrotik. Yesterday i reset my router do "undo" all that i did and to start over. On Friday night I did something on the router and it took my whole network down including the internet lmao took me ages to figure out how to get back on the webfig\winbox, I had to use the mac address and go from there. Anyway it being working I'm hesitant to just be doing my own thing incase I break it again lol. I even scared to update the routeros lol, but the firmware is up todate
Back to the port forwarding, here is what I have tried;
Port forwarding - RouterOS knowledge base - Support - MikroTik
and
/ip firewall nat add chain=dstnat dst-port="port#" action=dst-nat protocol=tcp to-address="mikrotik webfig ip" to-port="port#"
also
/ip firewall nat add chain=dstnat protocol=tcp port="port#" in-interface=ether1 action=dst-nat to-address="PC LAN IP"
I have read many other sites but it is all pritty much the same, except that very few mention anything about creating filter rules as well because apparently a nat rule is not the only thing to do for it to work.
My fiber goes into ethernet port 1 on the router and is labeled at ether1 in the webfig, there is also bridge. In the dhcp client ether1 has an ip 100.-.-.-/24 but when I go to sites to check my ports they pickup a totally different ip 165.-.-.- which to me seems strange. My dhcp and both dns start with 169.-.-.- , ip and gateway start 100.-.-.- , I'm using afrihost as my isp for my fiber
@AfriGuy @AfriFella, can you perhaps explain the ip assignment and is there something on afrihost infrastructure that will effect port forwarding? . I dont know perhaps if I should be using a different interface, maybe pppoe-client ?
I have tried even to enable upnp with bridge internal and ether1 external, but still nothing.
What is even more confusing is that when I go to the port forwarding site and check what ports I have open it even tells me that port 80 is closed o_0 but yet I can browse -- like what the hell ?
am I maybe putting it under or above the wrong filter rules?
My mikrotik is a
hAP AC3