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Port forwarding troubles from WAN to LAN

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 15, 2025
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Hello,

New fortigate-40f user (v7.2.10 build1706 (Mature)) here trying to struggle a port forward from WAN to LAN web server.

I checked the guides for virtual ip & firewall policy, but for some reason the internal ip/ service stays unreachable.The rules i created are.

1. virtual ip

2.firewall policy(tested with nat enabled & disabled with same result)

Any idea what is the issue here?

yours

Etep

FortiGate

dingjerry_FTNT

Staff

Hi @etep ,

Please specify the External IP in the Virtual IP settings.

etepAuthor

New Member

Hello,

tested with the "wan ip", but it didn't work

also tested with "physical interface" address, but that didnt work either.

What does this "physical interface ip" mean?

Yours

Etep

dingjerry_FTNT

Staff

Hi @etep ,

That is the real IP assigned to the WAN interface. What is the IP 109.204.176.115? I don't think that this is an IP assigned to the WAN interface.

Please specify the external IP with 100.64.28.202 for a try.

etepAuthor

New Member

Hello everyone,

BIG thank you for everyone explaining and making me realize that i had an "natted" ip. Got confused with the new gui etc. since my old apparatus was Zyxell.
Anyways i contacted my ISP and got me an public ip address. Now the Virtualip (with my preference 0.0.0.0 as external ip since i have a client on lan which yells the ip to dns provider) & Firewall policy works as intended.

Kudos to everyone helping a noob on this matter #heart

Yours

Etep

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