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    FTP not working from outside LAN

    Hey martinr, That might be a good good idea, regarding the receiver. I have a linux sat box on that same LAN, though no idea on setting up an FTP on it. But the thing is I'm not sure what this might bring, because according to the note on the Asus router GUI itself, port forwarding tab: When...
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    FTP not working from outside LAN

    Hi @john9527, and @martinr, thank you so much for your inputs. Only now I managed to arrive home to test a bit. So here it goes, the complete story with my ISP, VPN, etc. I don't think it changes much of the current situation, but might help you out to understand the pickle I'm in and maybe...
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    FTP not working from outside LAN

    Thanks @martinr. But to be honest, don't have much time honestly, and I'd prefer to focus on the root problem which seems to be that the port might not be accessible from the internet at all. Otherwise, is like to try to solve problem 1, I move into problem 2, and so on....which has been the...
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    FTP not working from outside LAN

    @martinr, I know what you mean. But, as a matter of fact, the router is actually setup as OpenVPN client to a VPN provider, with all firewalling and port forwarding and policy routing as you can imagine. Thinking about also setting this up as an OpenVPN server, makes me really wonder if it could...
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    FTP not working from outside LAN

    Hi, no sorries. Thanks for answering, but...yes I did. It looks like the router/Merlin itself might be blocking the port when not in LAN. Have you tried this yourself?, any other ideas?. BTW, I'm running the latest test builds for 378.54 (the only ones where VPN autostart actually works, but...
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    FTP not working from outside LAN

    Hello, I have setup a USB media drive with FTP on my AC56U/Merlin. I have also setup a NO-IP account. All working well from inside the LAN, access to FTP via NO-IP address perfect. The problem, is when I'm ouside home, and not in LAN anymore. FTP connection to port 21 on the FTP server from the...
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