It is when you want to connect from public ip's to your various mikrotik systems. Right now it will only connect to the main one behind the router. This is bad for trying to manage all our Mikrotik systems. I need to be able to get to each and everyone to see what is happening from home which currently we cannot do. So I wish to be able to change ports than I can just setup in router port forwarding to the internal ips.
Marvin, I suggest you really think about creating a management VPN for that. Just setup an PPTP server on the "first" MikroTik (or the gateway) and connect to that from home. Then you are "logically" part of your "internal" network and can reach all MikroTiks directly, without the need for port-forwarding or the like...
I can't get PPTP to work at all.. Since we are using a Bandwidth Management Solution that relies on mac/ip authentication. I can't figure out how the hell to bypass the protection to allow me access to the wireless radios since the server still seems to go thorugh the gateway (bmu) before allowing me to access the bridges and ap's. Any suggestion have you ever run a pptp server behind a nat router with dmz setup and a bmu that authenticates mac and ip? This is why ports is so much easier and we really need.
Also when I have a pptp link to the server I am not able to ping the client from the server. Is their something wrong with my configuration? I expect that is a big part of why I am not able to access the other radios because the bmu is not able to authenticate my mac and ip address.