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Trying to find a reason why 7800N external port forwarding to a client works over a wired connection but not over wifi. Port forwarding for 8081 is set up and there are no Wireless MAC Filter rules set. Internal port forwarding to the client works fine over wired connection and wifi however. As I understand it, setting port mapping for a specific port automatically opens up that port in the Firewall.

I'm trying to send http://<my static IP address>:8081/<some REST data>
This gets passed through to the client over a wired link, but NOT over wifi.

When I send 192.168.1.69:8081/<some REST data>
this gets passed to the client over a wired connection AND wifi (192.168.1.69 is the client's static IP)

Thanks

This is a strange one

Have you checked the default gateway on your device to make sure it points to the routers IP address?? (As you have a static setup, this may be the issue, as you can browse to the device locally)

Good thought - I will try that.

Surely though that doesn't explain why it works over a wired connection.

Incidentally I'm getting the same results at a different location with another 7800N so that probably excludes a router hardware/firmware problem.
It all works perfectly too at a third location using an old Netgear router, which leads me to believe it's something to do with port forwarding in the 7800N.

@billion_fan
I tried setting gateway in the client but it made no difference...

ponsonbysmythe wrote:@billion_fan
I tried setting gateway in the client but it made no difference...

Another thing to try is, set the device to pick up a IP address automatically, then use the fixed host option, so the device gets the same IP address all the time. (enter the MAC of the device and a IP outside the DHCP range, let the router assign this IP to your device)

Then setup a new port forwarding rule for this new IP address and test again.

billion_fan wrote: then use the fixed host option

That did the trick - brilliant thank you so much