What are the parameters of firewall rules LAN | WAN net, LAN | WAN address?
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Hello.
What are the parameters of firewall rules LAN|WAN net, LAN|WAN address?
I don’t understand what gets to LAN|WAN net, LAN|WAN address? -
@bars XYZ "net" would be the network that interface is attached to.
If your IP of lan is 192.168.0.1/24, then the net would be 192.168.0.0/24
If your IP on wan is 1.2.3.4/20 then the wan network would be 1.2.0.0/20 or 1.2.0.0 - 1.2.15.255
The "address" is just that - the address assigned to that interface 192.168.0.1 or 1.2.3.4
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@bars
WAN Address parameter resolves to whatever IP your defined WAN interface gets (typically DHCP from upstream)
LAN Address parameter resolves to whatever IP you assign to the interface named LAN.Ip addresses consist of an Address and a Netmask, so:
WAN Net resolves to WAN Adress/WAN Netmask
LAN Net resolves to LAN Address/LAN NetmaskI was going to say if you need more concrete example there is plenty a quick internet search gives you but as is typical, @johnpoz has faster fingers than me this morning.
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@bars
Understood nothing!
What is included here?
WAN net and WAN address?
I know what a global and local area network is.
I don’t understand what the WAN net and WAN address are about. -
@bars your wan would be how pfsense gets to other networks its not attached too. Normally this would be just a public internet IP. Or if behind a nating device from your isp, it could be just rfc1918 address..
A wan is the network a router uses to get to other networks its not attached to..
The wan net alias, is just that the network your "wan" interface is connected to. Yes the wan IP would be included in that alias, since it is the whole network that interface is attached to.
