Lots of stuff not working, don't know where to start
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@simonjcarr said in Lots of stuff not working, don't know where to start:
What do you think I need to change?
So what is now the problem?
If you want to control isolation between interfaces this post may help
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@patch said in Lots of stuff not working, don't know where to start:
this post
My problem is that none of the interfaces on the protectli box can communicate with each other. Even though an Allow All from All rule for all protocols is on all the interfaces, none of them can ping each other.
On top of that anything connected to my wifi interface can talk to the internet but anything connected to my LAN port can not talk to the internet.
The protectli box was reinstalled tonight and scratch and the settings are as per the screen shots I have provided above.
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@simonjcarr said in Lots of stuff not working, don't know where to start:
none of the interfaces on the protectli box can communicate with each other.
Are you trying to ping / communicate via IP address or logical name. The latter requires more to be set up.
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In particular local network discovery does not work between interfaces by default. -
@simonjcarr Can you disable ipv6 and see whether things begin working with just ipv4?
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One has nothing to do with the other.
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Not being able to connect out to the internet from LAN is a pretty basic problem somewhere.
How exactly are you testing?
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@jknott Simplification sometimes helps solve vexing problems.
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@patch I am going to try testing with another PC tomorrow because I am getting confused now.
I can connect to the internet and to PFSense over WIFI
When connected via Cable, I can ping a domain name like google.com, but can not connect via the browser and I see nothing in the PFSense logs.
Very confused because both connections over wifi and via cable were from the same Macbook but with very different outcomes.
Scratching my head.
Simon
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Quite so, but disabling IPv6 won't do anything for IPv4. You also have to understand what affects what when working on a problem.
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@simonjcarr said in Lots of stuff not working, don't know where to start:
When connected via Cable, I can ping a domain name like google.com, but can not connect via the browser
If you
- only connect one interface (wifi or Ethernet cable)
- flush the buffers in your web browser cache
- restart your laptop
- restart pfsense (to ensure all configuration changes are implemented and caches cleared).
- this should simply your network and remove problems related to dynamically changing the network interface / gateways.
Does it then work.
@simonjcarr said in Lots of stuff not working, don't know where to start:
Even though an Allow All from All rule for all protocols is on all the interfaces, none of them can ping each other.
I suspect this is different to problem. I would look at local network discovery broadcast packets relay between interfaces. Either that or the mask on the device you are trying to access from another interface.
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@patch Problem Solved. It was a problem with my MacBook. I created a new profile on my MacBook and that one works fine. So there is issue with the network setup on my other profile.
Anyway, Thank you so much for everyones help and advice. It has only strengthened my feelings about PFSense being a good choice.
