Merlin Firmware Port Forward

[yk101]

Then you would need to add the forwarding manually, using iptables, but then it would not survive a reboot of the router, or restart of the firewall.

You never said which router and which version of the firmware you have?

 

[jafwiz]

I Have an Asus RT-AC87U With the newest merlin firmware. It is set for VPN but I wanted to use this computer to do off Site backup.

 

[yk101]

Can't you do a "push" backup instead of "pull"?

Besides, if you connected by a VPN, is that a router connection or a client on your computer? If the client is local to the computer, then you shouldn't need to forward the ports. Your computer should have a VPN provided IP and server should see it directly.

 

[jafwiz]

The computer I am backing up is not local it is another city.

 

[yk101]

I Have an Asus RT-AC87U With the newest merlin firmware. It is set for VPN but I wanted to use this computer to do off Site backup.

Didn't you say "It is set for VPN"?

 

[jafwiz]

Yes it is set for VPN

 

[yk101]

Ok, then this workstation already has an IP on the remote network that can be used to access it directly, without the need for going through the public network, and port forwarding. Am I miss understanding something?

 

[jafwiz]

I don't know to much so you may be right but explain what I need to do please.

 

[yk101]

On the workstation, once VPN is connected, run:

ipconfig

You should see two different IPs - one local, and the other one provided by VPN. If your VPN is setup correctly, you should be able to ping that IP from remote location (assuming you are not blocking ICMP for the tunnel!).

If you are able to ping, then try resolving the name of the remote workstation from the server that you use to do the backup - it *should* return the same IP that you found on the remote host.

If that works, then just backup remote workstation the same way as it was on the local network. Hope that makes sense.