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#320207 17-Jul-2025 20:54

Hi All,

I need some help, my edgerouter-x has given up the ghost, i picked up a Ubiquity UCG Ultra as replacement. Online with fibre easily. I have a bunch of things at home I host, and for the love of god, I cant get NATD going/working. Does anyone have some experience with a Unifi UCG or similiar that can give me a hand please?

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#3395090 17-Jul-2025 21:33

I don't have the experience to help you, but wonder if you would get the right audience if you posted this in the LAN (...routers....) forum?

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#3395114 18-Jul-2025 07:39

Just here generating traffic, my er-x has frozen a few times and it's a toss up for me between the hex s 2025 and a ucg-ultra so I'm interested in learning too

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#3395274 18-Jul-2025 10:53

What are you trying to achieve?

Our test bench has a UCG-Max with a port forward to allow external monitoring of a specific piece of equipment, if this is similar to your goal.

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#3395278 18-Jul-2025 10:58

Yeah if its just a port forward then its under Cog > Policy Engine > Port Forward

Wan Port = External Port
From = Any

Forward IP Address = Internal thing you want to forward IP
Forward Port = Internal Port

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#3395337 18-Jul-2025 13:21

Dynamic:

What are you trying to achieve?

Our test bench has a UCG-Max with a port forward to allow external monitoring of a specific piece of equipment, if this is similar to your goal.

adding an additional /29 framed route so i can get to hosted things at home..... Dealth by 1000 cuts says my 1:30am finish and give up ......

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#3395339 18-Jul-2025 13:34

Ahhh ok. We've got a /29 on our main firewall, but have never set one up on a Ubiquiti device for a commercial client or for our in-house use. Sorry we can't help there.

If this is for a business environment and you don't have any luck flying solo, we'd be happy to help on a commercial basis.

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#3395357 18-Jul-2025 14:43

I think looking at mine, its under the WAN 1 (in my case) and then under IPv4 config the additional IP ranges only become available if you select static or PPPoE connection types - DHCPv4 or DS Lite do not allow an additional range.

I wonder, and I haven't done this myself yet as I've just moved to Quic, that adding your main IPv4 via the static option (if you know it) and then adding the extras via the add IP section?

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#3395472 18-Jul-2025 23:36

NickMack:

Hi All,

I need some help, my edgerouter-x has given up the ghost, i picked up a Ubiquity UCG Ultra as replacement. Online with fibre easily. I have a bunch of things at home I host, and for the love of god, I cant get NATD going/working. Does anyone have some experience with a Unifi UCG or similiar that can give me a hand please?

Have you tried a new power supply on the ER-X? The original power packs provided by Ubiquiti are fairly crap and usually die long before the router. I had to replace the ones on both my ERL boxes, and the replacement one from Jaycar on the one ERL I am still using 24/7 has now been going far longer than the original one.

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#3395580 19-Jul-2025 18:29

fe31nz:

NickMack:

Hi All,

I need some help, my edgerouter-x has given up the ghost, i picked up a Ubiquity UCG Ultra as replacement. Online with fibre easily. I have a bunch of things at home I host, and for the love of god, I cant get NATD going/working. Does anyone have some experience with a Unifi UCG or similiar that can give me a hand please?

Have you tried a new power supply on the ER-X? The original power packs provided by Ubiquiti are fairly crap and usually die long before the router. I had to replace the ones on both my ERL boxes, and the replacement one from Jaycar on the one ERL I am still using 24/7 has now been going far longer than the original one.

Unit power on (lost all settings), won't accept an upload of the backedup config. Suspect the NVRAM is pooched.

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#3395581 19-Jul-2025 18:30

Benoire:

I think looking at mine, its under the WAN 1 (in my case) and then under IPv4 config the additional IP ranges only become available if you select static or PPPoE connection types - DHCPv4 or DS Lite do not allow an additional range.

I wonder, and I haven't done this myself yet as I've just moved to Quic, that adding your main IPv4 via the static option (if you know it) and then adding the extras via the add IP section?

Tried that, then it drops offline after ~4 minutes. Suspect a bug, or the BNG just drops it (migrated to Vocus network this week)

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#3395583 19-Jul-2025 18:32

Dynamic:

Ahhh ok. We've got a /29 on our main firewall, but have never set one up on a Ubiquiti device for a commercial client or for our in-house use. Sorry we can't help there.

If this is for a business environment and you don't have any luck flying solo, we'd be happy to help on a commercial basis.

Thanks muchly, I'm going to return it, and replace with a Mikrotik.

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#3395587 19-Jul-2025 19:23

Note sure if you've had a look at this article.

https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/16437942532759-DNAT-SNAT-and-Masquerading-in-UniFi

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#3395605 19-Jul-2025 21:58

Ruphus:

Note sure if you've had a look at this article.

https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/16437942532759-DNAT-SNAT-and-Masquerading-in-UniFi

Yep, doesnt work unless the /29 is routed :)

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#3395607 19-Jul-2025 22:30

NickMack:

Dynamic:

Ahhh ok. We've got a /29 on our main firewall, but have never set one up on a Ubiquiti device for a commercial client or for our in-house use. Sorry we can't help there.

If this is for a business environment and you don't have any luck flying solo, we'd be happy to help on a commercial basis.

Thanks muchly, I'm going to return it, and replace with a Mikrotik.

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#3395610 19-Jul-2025 23:53

NickMack:

Unit power on (lost all settings), won't accept an upload of the backedup config. Suspect the NVRAM is pooched.

When the power pack dies, you will often still see the unit powered on. But it will be starved for amps and will then do very strange things. Writing to NVRAM uses significant power, so it would not be expected to work with a bad power pack. When the power pack goes bad while the router is running, it may well have enough power to keep running until it needs to do something that requires more power than it now has, and you then see a problem. So you try to reboot it and it then fails to boot correctly due to needing more power than it is getting at some point in the boot process. So it is always a good idea to try a different (compatible) power pack on anything that has a power pack and is giving trouble (not just routers).

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