• Binat to LAN interface from WAN

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    thanks for your answer.
    But, i need more than one IP adress, that's what i have tu use virtual IP …
    nerver mind ...

    Renaud

  • Accessing NAT on LAN

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    @KOM:

    Yes, by abstracting the actual IP address used to access the resource.

    Thanks KOM.  I will try that in the a.m.  And No NAT Reflection either way did not work for me.

  • Transparent DNS Proxy

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    So your goal is to have less dns queries going out your wan, so vs clients sending querys to outside dns A, B and C… They would think they are asking them but really just get back your cache (if there was one) in pfsense.

    While this might be useful if you had 1000's of clients, or even say hundreds of them all asking some outside dns.  You can lower your wan queries for dns by just blocking outside and they should be using what you hand them via dhcp, or what you tell them to setup statically.  If they don't then dns just wouldn't work for them - and then you save all their wan traffic ;)

    If what your wanting to do is have all your iot sort of devices that hard code dns and use your pfsense cache.  Ok - but how many iot devices do you have?  dns traffic really not all that much..  The few bits you save  by just using your pfsense cache wouldn't be much unless you had a shitton of devices ;)

    Also the stuff iot devices dns for, their CC hosted on CDNs normally has really low TTL's in the first place.. So while you might cache it for 5 minutes, next device would just create another wan query..  So again unless you really had a shitton of devices doing a shitton of queries to all kinds of stuff with longer ttl's the bandwidth savings is going to be very very minor..

  • SOLVED - Problem resetting uTorrent client vs pfsense.

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    "What's the trainwreck?  "

    Any attempt at support on FB.. I mean really!!  Its worse the subreddit..

    Ok clearly that is a trainwreck as well..  So you marked solved so what is working?? Have you even read the port forwarding doc??  Seems like your just clicking random shit hoping it works?? ;)

    https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/How_can_I_forward_ports_with_pfSense

    Why do you have rules to allow your lan and wifi networks on your WAN interface as source traffic???  Completely pointless..
    Why do you have 4 rules in a row that are any any.. Then calling them blizzard downloader?
    You do understand then your block rule at the end becomes pointless.

    Rules are evaluated top down, first rule to trigger wins - no other rules are looked at. 
    Traffic is evaluated inbound to the interface where pfsense first see's the traffic so rules like source net of lan on your wan would never in a million years do anything.  When would traffic inbound to your wan interface come from your lan network??

    What is the attempted point of blocking wifi to the wifi address.  You know the wifi network could just access your firewall on your lan IP, or your wan IP.  Is that rule to block access to the firewall or stop wifi from going else where on say your lan or internet.  Because with that rule only blocking ports that were not allowed to the wifi address.  The default block rule at the end would stop everything else that wasn't in your allow rules..  So not sure what you were trying to do there?

    Not sure what is in your aliases in your NATS..  But those are all wrong expect the one that lists wan address as destination..

    What I would suggest is you start over..  delete all these rules and leave the default any any rules lan side interfaces.  Delete all your port forwards.

    What do you want to do?  Why are you forwarding a RANGE of Ports to what I assume is an alias with lots of different IPs in it..  That is not going to work..

    Pick the port your different torrent devices are going to run on.. Make sure they run on different ones.  The create the port forward - per the doc link shown to 1 of these devices.  Validate it works, then go to your next utorrent client, etc.  If you can ot get a port forward to work then https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Port_Forward_Troubleshooting

    Then we can move on to whatever other ports you want to forward..

  • 1:1 NAT to a VOIP/SIP Router

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    @Derelict:

    Your SIP provider would be the one with what is needed there.

    I am the SIP provider. This is a completely internal deployment.  I have various sites and at each site there is a PBX/VOIP/SIP router which communicate amongst themselves to provide seamless intersite communication.

    Your diagram does not show:

    Where the PBX is (if any)

    The VOIP/SIP Router is the local PBX.  I thought that would be self explanatory.

    Where the phones are (if any)

    Phones are on a VLAN (10.10.11.0/24) on the LAN (10.10.10.0/24).  However, I'm not sure this is relevant as my primary problem is with the communication between my local and remote PBX servers, which I'm not sure is relevant to the location of the client phones. I'll explain further below:

    Where the SIP trunks are (if any)

    There are no onsite, or indeed off-site lines here.  I'm simply trying to get intersite (extension to extension) calling working.

    People need to realize that there is no "VoIP." They are all different and your SIP/PBX PROVIDER is the one who should know what needs to happen. Not necessarily how to make pfSense do it, but at least what pfSense needs to do.

    I'll explain some more details.  The VOIP system I'm using is an Allworx brand solution.  The process for creating a link between sites is fairly straightforward and I have it working at 7 sites globally.  One site has a "master" controller PBX.  Every other site must join to this master site, but after that the master provides info about all the other slave sites to each slave, and so the slaves maintain direct and independent communication with each other even if the master site goes offline (mesh network topology).

    The process for joining us simple.  You input the master site's IP into the slave site and a join request is issued.  You then login to the master site and accept the request and everything else is automatic.

    The status screen for the multisite network shows an Inbound and Outbound link status for each remote site relative to each local site.  There are three possible status for each link: pending (no response received), syncing (communication in process), and active (all good).

    From the slave site (in my diagram), I am able to successfully join to the master, and both directions show active links, but internal site to site calls do not work.  However, the slave site fails to sync with any of the other slaves.  All outbound links to the other slaves show as active, while all inbound links remain as pending.  This is what indicates to me that there is an issue with the routing that does not involve the local client phones directly.

  • NAT of whole subnet

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    Glad to hear, but really there was never a question that it was a better approach and would work ;)

    Natting has always been a workaround/hack to networks that overlap or napt when you need to have many IPs share the use of single ip.  This work around sometimes is useful in rfc1918 space a quick and dirty way to get something done.

    But in general if there is no absolute reason to nat, then you shouldn't.. If its rfc1918 to rfc1918 and you control both sides then not the way to do it.. And transit networks you would think were some new concept or something. I don't really understand the almost daily posts where they come up, the most common being asymmetrical routing issues because they didn't use a transit.

  • IP forwarding on virtual IP

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  • UDP packets not getting through to PBX VOIP system.

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    What rules did you change?  Do you recall?

    I'm having similar sounding problems, but everything looks right to me.

    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=121139.0

  • Possible double NAT

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    Fixed it thanks!!

  • Force host online gaming.

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    What exactly do you want to achieve? I really don't understand what you want here, but you can create a firewall rule that blocks all traffic from your network to destination any.

  • PS4 NAT port forwarding

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    This is from a CoD forum:

    PS4
    TCP:    80, 443, 1935, 3480
    UDP: 
    TCP and UDP:  3478-3479, 3074, 3075

    By default a new rule in pfSense is created using TCP. Have you remembered to change that to TCP/UDP for some of the rules?

  • Port forward not forwarding (yes, yet another thread.)

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    Ahh, so for all the 16 external IP's I have (except the 3 used by the fw's and CARP), I set up an IP Alias to point at the CARP VIP?

    I had a feeling it had something to do with the fact that I'm trying to forward to addresses that aren't the actual WAN one, and was looking at issue 7 in the guide, but couldn't really wrap my head around it off hand. Thanks, I'll give that a whirl, appreciate it.

    Edit: Great! That fixed it. No more cranky users. Thanks for the ELI5 explanation.

  • Port Forward not working

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    I would probably have to get about +800 to take the other side of that.

    (Underdogs would be outright ISP blocking, Double NAT, etc)

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    Glad you got it working.

    If you really want to part with $5, please send it here: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/

  • NAT'ting SMTP traffic sourced from the firewall's LAN IP

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    Gateway groups and other policy routing tricks are not available for traffic that originates from the firewall itself, they only work on traffic that enters the firewall via an interface from the outside. You can call it bug or otherwise but FreeBSD's packet filtering hooks can not re-route traffic that is already in the outgoing queue of an interface. Binding to an unused interface (like the igb3 in your case) is not going to work either because the traffic is still originating locally and never actually enters the incoming queue of the interface where it could be tagged for policy routing.

  • Static route from/to LAN to/from OpenVPN

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    johnpozJ

    Does your remote side know it needs to go down the vpn connection to get to 192.168.100.. Sounds like you setup a roadwarrior connection.  You more than likely want a site to site if your connecting to sites together.

  • A bug or a newb? NAT Port forwarding issue

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    Cristal clear!

    Thank you very much for the time you took to resolve my problem and point me to the proper documentation.

  • Double NAT Port Forwarding Problem

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    i solved the issue. i just added the server in my captive portal to access the internet that i was trying to port forward.  thanks Derelict.

  • Newbie question about LAN To WAN

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    DerelictD

    The same thing.

  • Traffic from LAN to LAN over OVPN

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    DerelictD

    https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/OpenVPN_Site_To_Site

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