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Hey Everyone,<br />
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I'm having some issues on a Watchguard XTM 22 with firmware 11.4.B306888. &nbsp;It was setup by the previous IT company and I had to reset it because no one knew the password and now I'm setting up VPN port forwarding to my RRAS server and it's driving me insane. &nbsp;I can't stand these routers for this exact reason, I've been working on it for 1.5 hours just to forward a single port and it's still not working. &nbsp;<br />
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So I have the Alias setup to the server IP, I have PPTP forwarding in the firewall setup as such:<br />
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From:<br />
Any-External<br />
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To:<br />
Server Alias<br />
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And it never connects, when I do port tests it says the port is closed. I've reset RRAS and it still doesn't work. &nbsp;<br />
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Any help would be appreciated. &nbsp;These routers are seriously unnecessarily complex, I'd rather go buy an off the shelf NetGear router and just forward the port in 2 minutes but I can't since they've already spent the money on this thing.
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Hey Everyone,

I'm having some issues on a Watchguard XTM 22 with firmware 11.4.B306888.  It was setup by the previous IT company and I had to reset it because no one knew the password and now I'm setting up VPN port forwarding to my RRAS server and it's driving me insane.  I can't stand these routers for this exact reason, I've been working on it for 1.5 hours just to forward a single port and it's still not working.  

So I have the Alias setup to the server IP, I have PPTP forwarding in the firewall setup as such:

From:
Any-External

To:
Server Alias

And it never connects, when I do port tests it says the port is closed. I've reset RRAS and it still doesn't work.  

Any help would be appreciated.  These routers are seriously unnecessarily complex, I'd rather go buy an off the shelf NetGear router and just forward the port in 2 minutes but I can't since they've already spent the money on this thing.

Setup Watchguard XTM VPN to RRAS on server

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

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