• BF3 ping times with PFSense

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    @Roots0:

    @fragged:

    Your local network has pretty much 0 affect on your ping times assuming you are not using wireless at any point, which might cause higher latencies. I get sub 1 ms latency up to 4 hops from my PC (pfsense,ISP gateway, .., ..).

    I don't agree with this at all. Quality of drivers and makeup of all network hardware from every hop affect your latency.

    Only for high bandwidth applications. Games use a few kbps. The latency will not increase beyond 1ms. The worst increase will be from the PC's NIC & drivers. Even then, only high bandwidth will aggravate the latency increase.

  • Xbox 360-Open NAT but still blocking traffic?

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    Unfortunately its not my network to start switching around components around. The whole reason I set up a pfSense box was to play around with it and get familiar with it so when I get out of here and have my own house I am used to it.  I've already learned a ton and I am enjoying playing with around with it.

    Do you think the Asus router is what is causing the issues?  I know having double NAT is asking for problems so I wouldn't be surprised.  Im thinking I might just pop a spare NIC in and mess with having a DMZ just for fun. Like I said I'm open to any suggestions.

  • Xbox on the network

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    Just to throw this out there. For xbox to easily have open NAT, it requires DHCP + uPNP.
    http://miniupnp.tuxfamily.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=393

    To secure your upnp, I would recommend checking the box next to "By default deny access to UPnP & NAT-PMP?"

    Then in your rule set next to "User specified permissions 1" set "allow 3074 xbox.ip.address 3074"

    Setting a static DHCP reservation in pfsense will not work in your main subnet.

    http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can't_I_have_static_mappings_inside_my_DHCP_range%3F

  • Cant connect to Playstation Network with PFsense :(

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    Its a realy stupid "bug"

    I needed over 6 hours to find this…

  • Internet Cafe Vlan with other Cafe

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    tyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

  • I am a noob, looking for assistance.

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    Perhaps something like this?
    http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Traffic_Shaping_Guide

  • Ping times creeping upward

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    I fired my ISP and turned off traffic shaping. With the new ISP all my issues seem to have disappeared.

  • World of Warcraft disconnects

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    WoW isn't using the pfSense proxy, so your problem hasn't got anything to do with pfSense.

  • TF2 kind of freezing periodically

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  • PFSense + 2PS3's + Black Ops II = No connection

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    I think is because 2 ports are trying to access the internet.
    Have you tryed with "1" PS3 with theses following port's TCP&UDP 3478-3479, TCP 3480, 5223

    http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/settings/connecttest.html
    http://www.ps3devwiki.com/wiki/Online_Connections#Game Specific Port usage

  • Multiple Xbox360's can't connect

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    In the past I have found the only reliable way to get 2 (or more) Xboxes running is either:

    Easy Solution
    DMZ to individual external IP's

    More unusual Solution
    Port Triggering - see this posting if you want to contribute:
    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,39638.0.html

    The above was with DD-wrt or similar router with port triggering facility. 
    One specific router I had (sorry long gone) simply required uPnP enabled - as long as the XBoxes received IP by DHCP (and therefore gave MAC addresses) the router managed the two through automatic triggering.

    Not knowledgeable enough with pfs to know if this is possible

    Good Luck

  • Multiple 360s - Open NATs, but cannot connect to each other

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    Fixed.  Turns out I didn't have NAT reflection turned on.  Once I turned that on, they could talk to each other.

  • Services at the same port

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    You might want to look into the plugin http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/multiverse-core/

    Have a single gateworld.

    Jump from there to multiple different servers on other ports than the default port.
    –> Run each server on it's own port.

  • Msn and Games

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    There's an article out there that says to add the following to the squid.conf for MSN functionality:

    Permit MSN

    acl MSN_ports port 1863 443 1503
    acl MSN_domains dstdomain .microsoft.com .hotmail.com .live.com .msft.net .msn.com .passport.com
    acl MSN_hosts dstdomain messenger.hotmail.com
    acl MSN_nets dst 207.46.111.0/255.255.255.0
    acl MSN_methods method CONNECT

    http_access allow MSN_methods MSN_ports MSN_hosts
    http_access allow MSN_methods MSN_ports MSN_domains
    http_access allow MSN_methods MSN_ports MSN_nets

    Here's the article -> http://fedorasolved.org/Members/realz/squid_IM

  • Ports aren't opening for cod4 server.

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    Please don't post duplicate posts.

  • Xbox 360's don't register in UPNP

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    @pstuart:

    FYI, I did fix this issue.  Nothing wrong with pfsense.

    My managed switch had multicast filtering turned on.  This interfered with UPNP which is multicast based.

    Pfsense UPNP and multiple xbox's using DHCP works just fine in 2.0.  NAT shows open in network testing.

    I have 3 xbox's that can all play online at the same time.

    I've had multiple XBox's working for a couple of years now using UPnP but just recently upgraded my home switch to a managed one and experienced this exact issue which was driving me nuts.  Disable Multicast filtering and I'm back in business, thank you pstuart.

  • Block Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 on ps3

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    You could try blocking the IP's of the master servers or blocking the ports MW3 uses for game sessions. Problems may arise though if the game's master servers are shared with other games or run in a cloud type environment. Doing a quick search indicates TCP port 3074 is uses to connect to master server so you could try blocking outbound connections to this destination port.

  • Low ping even with youtube

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    If you got the budget get another line and failover it much better than shaping been using it for weeks right know

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    Make sure when you add those rules that they are listed at the top. By default it's going to put them below the default rules so they will not work. If they are the last rules in your list click the little checkbox next to them, and hit the up arrow that is on the right side of the screen for the rule you want to place them above.

  • Multiple XBOX 360s and pfSense

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    You can't really NAT single ports to multiple IPs, it's the nature of the beast. The firewall would have no idea for which IP to forward to for a port.
    UPnP is useful for this purpose in that it negotiates the port to be opened with the firewall so that a connection can be made. The security implications are that the default settings for UPnP are inherently trusting. This means that a trojan or misconfigured program using UPnP could open ports on your firewall and widen your attack footprint.
    A best practice would be to limit UPnP access to certain IPs or interfaces.
    You could statically assign your Xboxes to those IPs and have UPnP ignore anyone else. Or, (in my opinion) a better way would be to hang your xboxes off an isolated interface and deny UPnP access to any other interface. You can do this with either a VLAN or a hard port.
    Generally, for a home network, UPnP is a useful tool, with some security implications to consider. Provided good security practices are followed, it is safe.

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