@vnoob said in PFsense not routing between lan and wan:
maybe that wasn't the best info to provide as that machine also has a dual nic with one in each network and I was pinging out the lan network on it.
In fact. Packets will go the shortest path and you will end up in asymmetric routing issues.
But pinging from the WAN interface to a lan IP fails...
As far as I can tell, this is not representative. Packets are sent out on the WAN for whatever reason.
You can use any other internal interface address. However, your LAN device might block this with default settings.
You can sniff the traffic on the LAN while doing this to see, what's going on.
so I am not sure what I am missing.
Me too.
Just try an outbound connection from a device behind pfSense, while you sniff the traffic on pfSense LAN and WAN to investigate this.