OPT1 Port forward doesn't work.
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-Dual WAN, both get the ip from DHCP.
-They have totally different gateways.
-Two NAT rules created for the same port on the same host, both with their auto generated firewall rule.
-Port forward only works on WAN.
-Already tried changing the gateway the rule uses, no dice.
-Tried setting manual outbound configuration with static port enabled, no dice.uTorrent port checker sees the port as open on WAN but closed on OPT1, also tried it from work and nothing.
Any ideas?
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Uhm…anyone? This is really frustrating.
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uTorrent isnt really a reliable way to test portforwards.
I would try it first simply with a port80 forward to a small webserver.Since you're testing with uTorrent i assume you want this to make use of multiple WANs for bittorrent.
This wont really work since there is no torrent client which announces multiple public IPs for a single client. -
This wont really work since there is no torrent client which announces multiple public IPs for a single client.
This is true for seeding but when downloading a torrent the sessions/connections are fired out of each wan gateway to connect to all the different leechers in the swarm, making use of the additional bandwidth an extra modem provides.
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uTorrent isnt really a reliable way to test portforwards.
I would try it first simply with a port80 forward to a small webserver.Since you're testing with uTorrent i assume you want this to make use of multiple WANs for bittorrent.
This wont really work since there is no torrent client which announces multiple public IPs for a single client.Thanks for your response.
No, i'm not interested in using multiwan for torrents, i have already been using it for usenet and general browsing for some time now and have been very happy with it. I'm testing with uTorrent because it was a pretty simple test to just go to their site and have their tool tell me if the port is open or not, which has always been closed in the case of the opt1 wan. I have also tried remote desktop from work and it have confirmed it does not work on opt1 even though the ports are forwarded. It works on the main WAN.
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At work we have the exact same setup and it gives the exact same problem, OPT1 port forwards don't work. At work the providers are different than the ones i'm using at home so it's not that.
No clues?
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For what it's worth, this should work fine.
That said, it's easy to get firewall traffic rules mis-matched with the NAT settings when making lots of changes. If you "walk through" the traffic flow and nothing immediately obvious appears, then the logs are your friends… -
I hade the same problem, this is what fixed it for me.
In Firewall Rules OPT1….changed Gateway from OPT1 to Default
In System Static routes......made a static route for OPT1 to DNS Server
For uTorrent you might need 6969 Torrent Connection Port in Firewall Rules.
These changes fixed all the problems I had with port forwarding and failover.
Hope this helps.
(pfsense is awsome, thanks to all the developers and programers.)
