Port Forwarding ESXi VM no joy !
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If you have a port forward like this:
And you try to connect to it from the WAN side you should see states like this:
There are no replies shown there because there is no server at 192.168.22.87 listening on port 5555. But the traffic is still NAT'd and routed as expected with states on both WAN and LAN.
Steve
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@stephenw10
This is what I got...
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You are testing from inside the network, the source IP is 192.168.15.39.
You have to test from outside the network to hit a port forward on WAN. If you need that to work from the LAN side you have to enable NAT reflection. And it looks like you must have done that since it is redirecting but you have not set 'Enable automatic outbound NAT for Reflection' in Sys > Adv > Firewall&NAT. And that means the server is replying directly to the client creating an asymmetric route.
Enable that or test from an external IP address.
Steve
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@stephenw10
my server isn't on 240...? 240 is the ring doorbell... -
Ok, then the wrong port forward rule is catching it. Possibly a 1:1 rule but port forwards override those if they match.
Let's see you port forwards.
Steve
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@stephenw10
Changed the order put doorbell last...
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Thank you for your perseverance... It restores my faith in use of support forums.
BSD is way quicker than using Linux Mint Apache... now to see if I have VHosts set up properly I'll have to move it over to port 80 and call up a website...
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Woo Hoo... it works !
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Many thanks Steve for all of your assistance. Wouldn't have ever found the rule order issue if it wasn't for you...
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No worries, glad you got it working.
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I have dropped out of many groups because members reply with a redirection in effort instead of working a problem. One fellow asked why I wasn't using a VPN to access my web content. I explained that the purpose of the website was for public use, not private. Or one fellow suggested I change from ESXi to ProxMox... Naw... too complicated for my purposes, and it means starting over from ground up.
I have enjoyed pfSense and need to be sure I've got it set up to give me maximum protection. One fella said Port Forwarding was risky as it opens you up to hackers. Well yeah, I knew the apps would be at risk. That's why I use ESXi, and backup my VM's. Get hacked... dump and replace...
My next job is to configure the email blocking that is provided under "feeds".
Thank you Steve
