Is NAT configuration for the WAN gateway required since the VPN gateway is used exclusively?
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Hey, fellow pfSenser users,I have a basic question since I'm no pfSense expert. I'm currently using pfSense 2.7.2 with NordVPN, and everything is peachy
. I was just wondering after noticing that there are both WAN and VPN references in Firewall /NAT/ outbound in pfSense. I was just wondering if the NAT references pointing to the WAN gateway are still necessary since I use the VPN gateway exclusively? Is it okay to delete them? Also, is the pfSense auto-version checker accurate & reliable? The reason for this inquiry is because I recently updated to 2.7.2 from 2.7.0 after a forced manual update after noticing others were using version 2.7.2, Mine kept saying that I had the latest version when I was using 2.7.0, which was a lie. What gives? 
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No reason to have NAT rules for the WAN if you aren't using it, should be good to disable those (I would disable for now, not delete) as long as you're 100% sure all traffic is indeed flowing over the VPN as a gateway.
There have been some bugs with pfSense updates/version checking before which have caused whatever version a system has to show as the latest version until you do some manual work, so not surprised you saw that. I don't know the intricacies of the bugs, but I know it's been happening to me for years (has been better recently though).
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@planedrop
Thanks for the reply and info! By the way, NAT only allows edit/delete/copy. There is no "disable" option. You'll see the disable option in "firewall rules." Anyway, I'll just leave NAT as is since it really not and issue. I was just curious if the WAN gateway needed those NAT configs if that gateway wasn't being used . -
@Ghost-0 if you want to remove the auto nat rules, you would have to go to manual mode.
