GL-XE3000 Port Forwarding

Routers
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Hello everyone.

I switched from a Zyxel NR5103E router to a GL.iNet GL-XE3000 router.

I have cameras at home and so that I can access them from the outside, I have port forwarding.

On Zyxel, I had access to them while on the WiFi network (i.e. internal) - and I have no idea why, although it shouldn't work in theory, but it did. Before Zyxel, I had some simple 4G router and there, in fact, to get to the cameras, I had to turn off WiFi on my phone and access the CCTV app from the external network.

It turns out that Zyxel had some clever, automatic setting that allowed access to the CCTV app even while on the internal network.

On the new GL.iNet GL-XE3000 router, I have the situation from the old 4G router, i.e. I can't get to the CCTV app while on the WiFi network.

Do you have any idea what was set in Zyxel and what I could set now in GL.iNet GL-XE3000?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Hello,

we're not sure if this is a issue, but the camera + phone Apps ever we met that automatically set up local links to access whenever they detect that in the same LAN.

Try swapping to software acceleration or disable to see. But there may be an effect on the NAT speed.

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Thank you for your answer. I switched off and then set the acc. to software but both options did not t help.
FYI: In my camera app I have entered static ip so I can connect from outside obviously. If I set it to internal ip it works when I am on WiFi but of course does not when I`m on 5G/LTE. And the the other way around.
Do you have any ideas how to solve this? Maybe some additional port forwarding setup?

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Can you explain in more details? Which static IP? Better with screenshots etc.

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Means I have a static, public IP which I need to control cameras from outside when on vacation for example. I bought it from my provider and had to enter it manually into my router. And in order to see what is on cameras I need to disconnect WiFi from my phone when I`m at home.

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Sorry for late reply.

Can you go to Luci and find the port forward rule and check if you have this option enabled?

If not, please enable it and check again.

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It turns out for the modem network, firewall setting is not correct for the NAT loopback rule to be generated. Please run this command to fix this:

uci add_list firewall.@zone[1].network="modem_0001_4"
uci commit firewall
/etc/init.d/firewall reload

You can also do that by edit wan firewall zone:
Network - firewall - wan - Edit -
Covered networks:

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Hello. Thanks for info, it was marked YES.

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Thank you for information. When I mark "modem_0001_4" and then "save&apply" and then go back to edit mode it is not marked anymore.
Where is run command so I can run the query you specified?

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Hello,

Please SSH to the router, and execute these commands:

uci add_list firewall.@zone[1].network="modem_0001_4"
uci commit firewall
/etc/init.d/firewall reload
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My God... It works!!! :slight_smile:
You are the man!!! Thank you :slight_smile:

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