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  Gaming time out every 2 hours on the dot…
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  @AndroBourne: I havn't had a chance to test it with many other games. But I've been playing Ark a lot lately and noticed that I keep getting time outs. I'll run a continous ping check and time it. Every 2 hours on the dot I get a row of 4 packet loses in a row and my Ark client times out. I have troubleshooted local hardware, including switch and NIC etc… I left the continous ping running all day long and came back to a 0% packet loss. It seems to only happen when I'm playing Ark. I have it feeling it might have to do with how packets are handled. I'm trying to set my NAT from auto to manual and see if that makes a difference. But while I'm testing that... anyone else have any recommendations? And yes. I have the game ports forwarded. By any chance does your DHCP lease reset every two hours?  It shouldn't be disconnecting you but something to consider.
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  Firewall rules for BF4
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  @Thierry69: Have made it working, I publish my rules if somebody is interested on it … Cheer, Works for the servers you are playing on, I see many using ports not in your rules. 20167, 19777, 47200, just to name a few. Again BF4 Server port can be anything.
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  Dolphin Emulator + UPnP not working
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  Steam Caching update games
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  Perhaps not the exact answer any of you are looking for but this works and works well and is relatively easy to get going: https://github.com/RyanEwen/lan-cache-docker I've tested it with:     Steam     Origin     Uplay     Blizzard (Including Destiny 2)     League of Legends     ArenaNet (Guild Wars 2)     Frontier (Elite Dangerous)     Microsoft (Windows Updates) Simply setup an Ubuntu Server 16.xx Server without the LAMP option (you'll need to disable Apache if you do, it will intercept port 80), I suggest choosing the OpenSSH server, is easier to paste commands from another PC with PuTTY etc. Once the server is installed simply follow the setup instructions here https://github.com/RyanEwen/lan-cache-docker/wiki/Setup-instructions. Set the IP of this new lan-cache server as your DNS server instead of using pfSense for DNS. Trying to shoehorn nginx, sniproxy and the way dnsmasq is used for hijacking the various Game CDN names into pfSense is well beyond my abilities.
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  Dolphin Netplay with pfsense
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  UDP Port problems
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  I have gone straight to the manual on the disc I have the correct ports.
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  Looking for IP-List or Port list for PUBG
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  This is what I use, In general works for all steam games. 27000:27015  Game Client Traffic 27016:27030  Matchmaking 27031:27036  Streaming 3478:3479      Voice 4380              Voice
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  Game update problem
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  Ignoring that you are running a fairly old version of pfsense. The rule you have setup for your game has several problems: 1. It is limited to udp and tcp traffic, but the game updater might use ping requests to check if a host exists, pinging use the icmp protocol (but that would also take place on another port, so it would still not pass by this rule). 2. The rule only passes for a single port? Are you sure the game updater only uses that one port? If not the traffic is split between your WANs, that is usually a problem since the host server expects traffic to come from the same source IP, not from different. Basically, I have not reason to think that your current setup should work at all.
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  Multiple PS4s, Cant get Nat 2 on both consoles.
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  ah, I've fixed mine!  see this thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=126746.msg772656#msg772656
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  UDP Proxy to Allow Multi VLAN Steam Link
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  This is totally a DenverCoder9 xkcd 979 reference.. I had same problem. You never posted back what solved yours! Couple solutions: http://www.vttoth.com/CMS/index.php/technical-notes/63#Appendix https://www.waldonell.com/thoughts/articles/playing-multiplayer-starcraft-on-lan-with-multiple-subnets A CISCO switch with 'UDP Relay/IP Helper' option to forward port 27036 Bridge the two networks only use 1 subnet in first place I ended up bridging the two… Don't need the security.
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  Xbox One (incl. S and X) - Howto for Open NAT
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  If the game uses Xbox Live for everything on the network side, then I would think it would work. If the game uses its own servers, a different port number that you can't change (to make each console use a unique port), or requires UPnP, then obviously my solution would not work.
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  Multiple Xbox playing the same game (Call of Duty WWII)
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  https://digiex.net/threads/pfsense-step-by-step-guide-to-multiple-xbox-ones-open-nat-play-together-2-3-x.15094/
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  Need help getting port forwarding to work
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  Bones, I know it's been a few months but were you able to get port forwarding for COD sorted out? If so how? I'm currently beating my head against the wall trying to get an "Open NAT" in Black Ops 3. I have tried everything in the pfSense help pages but still no joy.
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  Destiny 2 Strict NAT to Open? [SOLVED]
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  You can check your NAT status, in settings under network.
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  Cannot connect to steam store
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  Disregard, suddenly started working
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  Gta V Online (PC) - How to get Nat Type Open?
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  [PS4] Rainbow 6: Siege trying to play on the same network with more then 1 ps4
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  I found this solution, it works for me Somehow Youtube Video
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  Multiple Xbox Ones, Open NAT Failure
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  I have been having this same issue on and off again since the release of xbox ones. I tried having another crack at this over the weekend since I now have the latest dashboards on every xbox and can select which port to use instead of 3074. The issue is the same, I have NAT Open on every box using all forms of NAT Reflection mode for port forwards, disabled, pure NAT and NAT + Proxy and have had Automatic create outbound NAT rules checked and unchecked. The issue is it works for most games but then there are a few that just refuse to multiplayer up. They can party and chat and play majority of the games. Games like Warframe that don't connect with NAT Open just require you to set a manual outbound NAT with sticky port disabled. This will set the second xbox to NAT Strict and you will be able to play together. Once you switch games you can leave it and xbox 1 sticky and xbox 2 random port but this might affect matchmaking in other games if you don't switch back to sticky on both when not partied together.
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  Xbox One - Black Ops 3 - BOUNTY
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  @cfran22: Also as an update to what has been attempted, I've now changed my ACL entries to have one Xbox be allowed 3074, the next 3075, the final 3076, then 2 rules for all of them to be allowed to grab 53-3073 and 3077-65535, as it seems from another forum that this was Activision's suggestion. Still no dice. You cant do that..  Xboxs try 3074, then a Random Port (40k+) for Teredo, you MUST allow Xboxes to grab ANY port they want, the ONLY one you can deny is 3074, nothing else. You can not force an Xbox you use certain ports by restricting what UPNP will allow, the Xbox will just give up since UPNP doesn't tell it "you can only use these", the Xbox ask UPNP, "can i use this", UPNP say nope, Xbox ask then "can I use this", UPNP says nope, Xbox gives up. The ONLY UPNP rule you should have is. deny 3074 192.168.1.0/24 3074  <<---- Replace 192.168.1.0/24 with you LAN Subnet This forces the Xboxes to pick a different port for "Teredo", this also allows all games on all Xboxes to UPNP themselves another port if they need it. As far as UPNP goes, every Xbox MUST be allowed to use every port except 3074. In my setup, I have no Xbox Dedicated Inbound or Outbound NAT Rules, the only thing Xbox Related is a deny ACL for 3074. For Outbound NAT my whole LAN has Static Port, making a separate rule is not very helpful, and forcing random ports for LAN devices hurts worse then it helps anyways, not that it hurts much, point is it offers practically 0 benifit. I have UPNP only Blocking the use of 3074 "deny 3074 10.0.1.0/24 3074". Then for "NAT Loopback" or "NAT Reflection" I have Goto System -> Advanced -> Firewall & NAT NAT Reflection mode for port forwards: Pure NAT Enable automatic outbound NAT for Reflection: Check/Enabled That is it, Xboxes have full open NAT, any Games can UPNP more ports if they need, and they can talk to each other via the WAN IP.
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  UPnP multiple hosts playing the same game using the same port
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  As others have mentioned, if the game is not coded properly to use Upnp you are not going to have much luck (ie if it only requests 1 port, and that port is the same on all your different consoles you cannot do so)  The only fix for that type of issue is to have a public IP address for every game console you own.  Most ISP's charge extra for additional IP addresses. Also, as the other thread is locked, and I could not find the upnp restart script mentioned in that thread, I figured out a way to restart upnp for me every morning. Here's the php script require_once('/etc/inc/services.inc'); require_once('/etc/inc/service-utils.inc'); upnp_action('restart'); ?> Then install the cron package, and set it to execute.  Here's what mine looks like. /usr/bin/nice -n20 /usr/local/bin/php /root/restart_upnp.php obviously i placed the above script code into /root/restart_upnp.php As far as 'all home routers do this fine'  I would highly disagree with that.  If you have good luck with default settings on home routers then your upnp should be fine in pfsense. My only issue was that after a day or two (using 2 PS4's and playing bloodborne, dark souls, etc co-op) it will eventually run out of mappings as they do not age out.  Hence the script to restart upnp every morning. Another thing to mention is that the ps4's/xbox's don't remember their upnp settings between boots.  If your games don't work, i would suggest closing the games on all consoles,  restarting upnp on the pfsense, and then launching all the apps again.  This has fixed our issues 99.9% of the time.
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  Weird short term freezes in overwatch.
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  Does your WAN's quality graph show anything odd? Have you ran pings to a known good few services and seen if the pings jump  up during this time?
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  For Honor >> Open but Strict??
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  Hey all, super sorry to necro an old thread but it has pertinent information and screenshots. I was able to get For Honor working with the static outbound rules, however I am running into an issue where I have 2 roomates who also play and while the nat rule works for the first PC in the rule list, the other 2 never get the traffic. I tried adding an alias with the hosts specified, but this doesnt seem to work. I come from cisco where we could forward nat traffic to a range of hosts, or even a subnet. How would I accomplish the same thing with PFsense? Thanks!
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  PS4 NAT Type=2 but COD NAT Type=Strict
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  It looks like I got it…  The post I mentioned earlier helped but it was missing one crucial step that immediately fixed my issue.  I stumbled upon another page that suggested moving the rule to the top of the list.  Once I did that, my issue was fixed.  I even removed the ACL entry and tested with positive results.
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  Fix can not ping in garena room through pfsense router os
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  I had same problem. I fixed.
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  I can only get one computer at a time to work with forwarded ports. WHY?????????
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play Services > UPnP
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  [RESOLVED]UPnP Issue
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  Pretty sure I figured this out with Cisco switches and the NAT Issue on xbox. I did some research on Cisco's forums and discovered that most of the xbox's traffic is multicast for some reason (also has a TTL of 1 /boggle). I also found an article that talks about needing to have multicast turned on the switches with all the new home theatre gear, so I figured this makes sense. I added the following option to my Cisco switch and now I always have an open NAT, on both my Xbox and PS4. conf t ip igmp snooping If your using L3 interfaces you need to turn on pim multicast mode on each interface so it passes multicast traffic too..
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  Steam In-home streaming
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  If you are referring to Steam streaming from one box to another or from your gaming PC to a Steam Link, then pfSense has absolutely nothing to do with it since Steam streaming only works for devices on the same subnet. No streaming traffic crosses pfSense.
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  Can't connect to my server
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  UPnP Configuration Habits
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  What app?  Are you talking about logging into your bank account or something? So your saying that these apps don't work at starbucks or hotel wifi, or any other hotspot wifi - which are not going to have UPnP enable that is for damn sure..  I would have to assume the financial app maker would get flooded with support calls since the vast majority of wifi out there does not have UPnP enabled.. UPnP allows for unsolicited inbound connections, to be forwarded at the nat device to your devices IP.. How would that be required for some app to work?  My guess is whatever you were doing for testing - something else changed when you think you enabled UPnP and so you think that is what fixed it.  Look in your UPnP status when using your APP and its working.. What does it show it opened?  This status will show you what was requested, what was opened, etc.
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  Dedicated servers and limiting outside access question
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  "with like an authentication keyfile or something on their computer " If you have outside people that you want to limit to access your game.. Simple enough to limit your port forward to their source IPs - if they know them and they do not change all the time.  Another option would be to just let them vpn in.. And then through the vpn access the game.. This way you know for a FACT that its them, since they will be the only ones that can auth to your vpn via the cert you give them.
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  Dolphin Netplay with pfsense behind bridged Comcast Modem
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  Alright homeslice. First things first we need a mod to move this to gaming. Secondly, I cannot let this go unhelped because you're clearly playing games originally released on the best system ever, and what kind of gamer would I be if I let this continue?! OK, now that THATS out of the way, do you have UPnP enabled?  You mentioned wireshark, do you have packet caps for the host attempting the traversal mode? What is your current nat/firewall rule setup regarding this? Hope to get you online asap so you can smash.
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  PS4 - Type NAT 2 download failed
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  No issue here with my PS4. Try to assign to PS4 the outbound nat rule as "static". https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=69319.0
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  Playing Grim Dawn behind pfSense
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  2 Xbox One online Help/Assistance
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  Xbox only uses 3074 for inbound everything else is outbound only, if 3074 is not available it will pick a random high port to try and UPNP forward.
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  GTA 5 fails to connect to servers
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  I'm also getting the same problem did anyone give any suggestion how solve this problem?
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  NAT Traversal and XBONE Strict NAT
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  @jimp: 172.168? Perhaps that's a typo in the source addresses? And that first outbound NAT rule for a destination of the switch will never be hit. It isn't necessary, remove it. …we use 172 first octet at work...derp. I crossed the wires. I'll change that. Edit: Xboxs' NAT is now open so I'd imagine the switch is resolved as well. Thanks for your assistance.
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  PfSense Gaming Questions
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  As far as I know the UPnP service on pfSense does not set up static port outbound NAT for the connections which is a key piece for having open NAT on the games. The UPnP service does only the port forwarding part for you.
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  Another Multiple PS4 gaming problem
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  I reverted back to 2.2.6 and have 3 Xbox One's UPNP with static Nat, All 3 of us can play the same game in the same lobby with no problem. The problem seemed to happen when they went to 2.3 it broke something. Just downgrade to 2.2.6 setup like normal and your good to go.
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  Problem with gaming question
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  @GettCouped: Firewall rules were set up according to specified. By this, do you mean that the Firewall rules for the LAN Interface that the PC is connected to were setup per Ubisoft AND the Firewall/NAT/Port Forwards were also setup to forward the unsolicited inbound to the PC and added the corresponding firewall rules? Do you see any blocked packets in your firewall logs on your WAN interface when you start up the game? Also, what uPnP port is your PC getting?
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  UPnP & Static NAT but still NAT: Moderate CoD BO2?
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  Probably be good to post some screen shots of your config. Step 1. DHCP Static Mapping Step 2. Outbound NAT rule & mapping order (put it at the top) Step 3. NAT Port forwards Step 4. UPnP Config Step 5. Firewall rules At a minimum, your firewall rules should allow traffic to port 1900 for the uPnP SSDP discovery broadcast, and to port 2189 to talk to the miniupnpd server Also, to diagnose this, you can either do a Diagnostics - Packet Capture on your PC and comb through the capture to map out your traffic OR setup a Floating Match rule to log all traffic in & out of your PC into the firewall log.  Then correlate those to WAN block/pass events.