Well i got it to work.

installed package "ShellCmd". This package is to simply run the following command at every bootup of the router so that the arp entry is always there.

shellcmd: command: arp -s 10.0.0.254 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
where 10.0.0.254 is the broadcast IP of my network
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff is the MAC broadcast address. Use this as is!

Finally setup NAT port forwarding to 10.0.0.254 and the port you want to use for WOL, eg UDP 9

@sunnyg
"What's even more odd is that if I ping the external FDQN when connected to the VPN the packets respond back from the external IP address, so I am pretty that something on pfSense is blocking the request."

If that's true, then while connected to VPN, you should be able to browse the FQDN (public IP) of your pfSense box on port 7001, and the target webserver should be there. Unless... your work firewall is blocking port 7001 outbound. Sounds like you'll have to choose... access your internal server or be connected to work (or use a different machine). It's pretty normal to not be able to do both.

@jimp Thanks. I had gotten this sorted out.
now im banging my head against setting WOL (wake on lan) to work over WAN(internet). I have that working in my oepnwrt router but im new to pfsense so dont know much.
Is that something you know about :)

Thanks again.

So you just need to setup a VPN to Azure so the board can connect to an instance there?

Steve

@horse2370 i figured it out, i had to set the static lease for freenas and plex also opened port 32400 in the firewal

SCLR is still in development, we will reveal more information about it over time.

You can listen on 1000's of ports if you want on pfsense, you can forward 100's of them... Doesn't matter if your wan rules do not allow for the traffic then they would not be open from outside.

I can see number of lost packets in Wireshark analysis. The ratio between lost and all packets is something like 30/150000. PF shows 0 packet loss during the capture period. This is an example of one sample of course.
So.. even if PF detects few lost packets and wireshark displays few dozen, I can't tell which one of those is actually detected by PF. And furthermore should I be worried about lost packets detected by PF anyway?
At least some of the lost packets detected by WS I was able to link to one workstation.

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