Once Upon a time, I set up a Point to multi-point wireless Network using MikroTik SXTs as Station Radios and MikroTik Metal as 5SHPN as AP bridge. Everything worked perfectly OK; I could get to the internet from the station networks, access servers, printers and shared folders/files from across all networks. One day while on the Network at the AP bridge, I received a mail to authenticate some users at one of the station Networks. All attempts to do this remotely proved abortive. Guess what was the problem?
SXTs come with a default firewall Configuration that wont allow remote management until they are disabled.
To disable these firewall rules
Get connected to the Network behind the SXT you want to configure
Access the management interface of the SXT through winbox
Then:
- Click on IP tab
- Select Firewall
- Disable the rules as shown in the diagram below
With this, you you can now manage you SXTs from any network on your internetwork
I hope this was informative and I'll like to thank you for reading.
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