NAT for two servers on same network

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#:1.41.8.9834
Player Version#:4.148.0

I don’t know what I did, but I’ve somehow excluded both of my servers from being found remotely simultaneously. I have an old Windows server and a new Docker server. Up until yesterday, I could toggle between them through the Web App locally, and access either of them remotely from my friends’ houses.

I was troubleshooting something else today and accidentally deleted the NAT rule from my Mikrotik Router, for which there is no “undo” command. Now I can only see the old Windows server in the web app and it claims that remote connections are broken (EDIT: I seem to have fixed the remote access for the old server). The new Docker server has vanished.

How do I restore the NAT rule, and do I have to have two different NAT rules with different ports for each server?

Thanks!

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I think there was only one rule that I deleted. I seem to have gotten the rule back in correctly for the old server as its remote connection indicator now stays green. I’m going to have to figure out how to tell the docker server to use a different port, I guess?

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Thanks. It seemed to work, sort of. I have two NAT rules in my router now, one for each server, each listening on a different external port. When I load the plex webapp now, it only shows the new server; I can’t toggle between them as I did yesterday. 15 minutes ago it would only show the old server, and then I refreshed plex and the old server has vanished.

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Yes, that’s what I mean. The second server is totally gone from the settings page and the player > more area where you usually find additional servers that haven’t been pinned.

I did check the devices and both servers are still present there. Only one at a time shows up in the web app though.

EDIT: If I remote login to the PC that is the old Windows server, open the plex web app on that system with “localhost:32400” it still only shows the new server in Plex.

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I got them back! I had settings in the NAT to specify the interfaces as Ethernet1 and WAN. I changed those to “All” for both server rules and now everything is back. Phew.