Double NAT with pfSense Community Firewall
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Hello people of the internet,
i have the following problem... i have a vodafone station router(
) at home. You can't do sh** with it. I cannot set the router into bridged mode i cannot backup or restore and so on. The router is very dumb to put it simply. 2 Days ago i changed the firewall from IPFire to pfSense Community Firewall...But here lays the problem. I want to play Battlefield 1 for instance. But its not working because my console tells me it have a double NAT. Also the NAT Type is strict. My Question now is how can i fix this...as i told early i cannot set the router into bridged mode. What alternatives do i have that act like a translator because when i disable NAT at all i cannot access the Internet nothings working because clearly the packets dont know where to go to. Please send help! 
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@ErrorHandler I’m not familiar with the game setup, but, see if your ISP router allows setting pfSense as its DMZ. This forwards all inbound packets to pfSense.
If the game requires uPnP, pfSense supports that, it’s under Services.
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@SteveITS Thank you for your reply! Unfortunately, my router has no DMZ settings. I think it's too old... because I googled it, and apparently, with newer Vodafone Station models, it works. I already read about uPnP, but it's not working. I enabled it on my router and on pfSense, but nothing changes. :/ Still getting no connection if i disable NAT with uPnP enabled.
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@ErrorHandler Can you port forward all ports to pfSense? Say, 1025-65535?
uPnP won't have any effect if the packets aren't getting to pfSense.