MikroTik Port Forwarding

In this video we will learn how to forward ports (80 in this case to a web server) from the WAN interface to an IP address on the inside!

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[obd]

As much of a ubnt fan i am like you and Chris, were using more and more Mikrotik at work and its really great. The RB750gr3 aka Hex is fantastic value for money, winbox with its MAC discovery and connection abilites makes it so easy to work with. I've been wanting to try out configuring the Hex with fail over WAN to usb LTE modem. Looking forward to more Mikrotik content!

[TechFromYorkshire]

For those who are starting out, 'srcnat' is typically associated with internal users wanting access to the internet. The 'source' IP is kept private through translation to the external IP. 'dstnat' is typically used when needing to port forward from the internet to the internal network. It allows an external IP to translate to an internal IP. Obviously, this is greatly simplied and there are other uses but it will help those dealing with Mikrotik's many, many, many (!) features.

[jbones]

Glad to see you doing mikrotik videos not enough on YouTube. I purchased my first mikrotik router 3 years ago and thought I was decent with routers but found out quickly I'm not as good as I thought I was. Great product at an amazing entry level price. You never have to reboot the thing it just runs. I use the mikrotik router with ubiquiti wifi ap's

[Wazgrel]

Oh my God thank you man!!! Finally I've successfully learned to open ports, I was never able to do this before.

[AlanMillerFencepost]

One nice thing about using Winbox instead of the web interface is that it splits that long page up into several tabs, most notably "General" where you can do the basic stuff (chain, which inbound IP or interface, etc.), "Advanced" where you can configure things like choosing a list of addresses allowed to trigger the rule (address lists are created under IP-Firewall-Address Lists) and Action where you can specify what the rule does (accept, drop, dst-nat, etc.).

Also useful may be going into the top-level Interfaces area and adding a Comment to your WAN connection - in Winbox that shows up on lists, not sure offhand about the web interface.

Another useful note if you're just learning is that everything you can configure through the UI can also be configured from the Terminal interface - including by pasting rules in. That lets you drop things in (probably adding "disabled=yes" as part of the rule), then inspect them in the GUI if that's easier for you. The text export or paste also ends up meaning that it's easy to configure a router, dump relevant config as text, tweak as appropriate, then push it back into the router.

[etiennevisser]

Thank you so much I have the same mikrotik interface and it was confusing at first but after your video it's like a dream come true to do port forwarding

[perotross]

Although I already knew how to port forward in a Mikrotik, I still have a lot to learn. Its great to see Mikrotik videos using the web interface. Many vids out there using winbox, but running Linux exclusively, the web interface is what I have to use. And it appears to do everything that winbox does. Mikrotiks are very powerful and I hope to see more about them on your channel. Maybe some topics on VLAN's? I have done it, but it always confuses me on how to do an access/edge port versus a trunk port. Love UBNT gear too so keep up the good work there as well!

[DCxALBRECHT]

awesome videos! i am part of a growing WISP and look forward to more Tik content!

[ScofieldMuliru]

Thank you for the wonderful learning videos.

[BestKosmakCZ]

Thanks man, really helped me alot. I´m a pc gamer and ubisoft simply doesn´t want to rent servers, so the online play is peer to peer connected :/ :D Thanks again, you really helped me!

[EricGoodrich]

I had a funny UDP joke to tell, but I lost it somewhere...

[winstonscentraltechnology]

good afternoon could you help me out with my mikrotik basebox want the best performance from it plus the hotspot feature on it keeps asking some customers to sign in again every 2mins

[ErykKarany]

How do you do port forwarding when you have your mikrotik as a bridge? I can see for the above that your Address aquisition is Automatic while mine is static. I want to be able to access a server outside my network. Thanks

[msthalamus]

Thank you for posting this. It was very helpful.

[jeremylain]

I am trying to remote desktop in to a computer using the wan Ip address and I can do it from my phone using my phone internet and I can connect to it from a different computer using the mobile hotspot internet, but I can't connect to it using the WAN ip address on the same LAN. Is there something else I need to add in the port forwarding to get an outgoing connection, this way I can connect to it from other places maybe, or will it not connect there too?

[i-am-your-faasha]

Hay man I know this vidio was done a while back but just want to ask a quick question about port forwarding. I'm struggling to find out what is what on my mikrotik hap ac2. I'm trying to port forward my ps4 to a games port like call of duty modern warfare, Fortnite. Is there any chance you could help me out would be much appreciated 🙏

[hazaito]

Excelente Video. igual paso a paso todo me funciono, eres grande Bro.

[davide_cappelletto]

I need to set my NAT to open to play videogmaes online, but putting in the ports i have to use to do it, my nat is still strict. why?

[mawererejafari]

@willie, can you help with setting open vpn on mikrotik

[hiwa_ar]

thank you so much it helped me much ..