Smartlink Ports Problem with new Linksys Velop Pro 6E

Dave KD5FX

I've had Smarklink working fine with my cable modem for years, ports 4993/4994 were forwarded to the address of the radio. Network was on 192.168.0.****. I recently added the Linksys Velop Pro 6E mesh system to my home. It setup a new network on 192.168.1.****. I first plugged the Linksys into my switch which was on the cable modem's 192.168.0.**** network but then I couldn't connect to the radio from any device in the house on WiFI because they were all on the 192.168.1.**** network. So I had to move the small switch I had from the output of the cable modem to the output of the Linksys for everything to work inside my home. Now everything in the house is on 192.168.1.**** but I can't get the Linksys to forward ports 4993/4994 to the radio.

I told the cable modem to forward those two ports to the Linksys at 192.168.1.1 and tried to get the Linksys to forward them to the address of the Flex at 192.16.8.1.150 but I don't find any setting in the Linksys for port forwarding.

Anyone else figured this out?

Ken Wells

You are Multi-NAT'ed.
Multi-NAT is incompatible with SmartLink.

You will need to configure your Mesh system to operate in "Access Point" mode, so that you do not have TWO routers operating in "Daisy-Chain."

OR

Configure your first router to operate in "Bridge Mode" as a "dumb Modem" and turn its WIFI OFF.

Then configure the Mesh Unit to do all of the "Heavy Lifting" of Firewall, Routing, WIFI, DHCP Service, etc. and set up your SmartLink Port Forwarding rules (or UPnP) on the Mesh Unit.