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      eckman
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      I am having a problem with getting a wireless AP setup. I will gladly give you screen shots to help me out if you let me know which ones you would like. I think my problem is centered around DNS, but I am not sure. I am able to obtain and IP on the wireless interface that is in the range I setup in pfsense, but thats it. I can access the AP's firmware, but I am not able to access pfsense. I am not able to get to any lan address or internet addresses.

      My network is setup as a Windows 2003 AD domain, and its setup with domain.local for example it has DNS running on the domain as well. I have rules setup, and maybe I need to allow the DNS port through the NAT but I am not sure. Any rules or anything you need screen shots of please let me know.

      Thanks
      Eckman

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      • GruensFroeschliG
        GruensFroeschli
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        http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7001.0.html

        We do what we must, because we can.

        Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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          eckman
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          I have been on the forum and looked at these things previously I used a walk through to set it up. I know little to nothing about freebsd. The nat rule is in place its been changed to advanced nating. There is a rule for each interface. What else do you need to know. Looking for some help here I have done a lot over the past week working with this, and I am having no luck.

          Thanks
          Eckman

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          • GruensFroeschliG
            GruensFroeschli
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            Could you post screenshots of your advanced NAT rules and the firewall rules you created?
            Maybe a diagram from where to where what access should be allowed could help.

            We do what we must, because we can.

            Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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              eckman
              last edited by

              Here is the information you requested. I hope this helps out. It would be great to figure this out.

              Thanks
              Eckman

              netinfo1.JPG
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              • GruensFroeschliG
                GruensFroeschli
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                You can remove the two entries on WAN and LAN for OPT1 since they never do anything:
                http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7001.0.html

                Somehow i dont think this is a problem with pfSense but more with your WRT54GS.
                Are you sure the WLAN and the wired side are bridged together?

                Can you try to put a wired client directly on the the OPT1 interface?

                We do what we must, because we can.

                Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                  eckman
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                  I could try that, but I know the OPT1 interface works. I believe you are correct. I just want to make sure before I go out and buy more stuff that the problem is related to the router. I know the wireless interface on the router is passing the IP address to the wireless adapter on my laptop. However when it gets the address the only thing it can do with it is access the firmware of the AP. I can ping anything from the OPT1 interface so I believe I haver narrowed it down enough. I followed the instructions on DD-WRT site to make it a wireless AP instead of a router/wireless AP. So I think it is hardware related on the AP. Just making sure that it was me not knowing how to configure the rules on the pfsense firewall. I still wish I could find a wireless adapter that would work that wasn't the Cisco one though.

                  Thanks
                  Eckman

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                    eckman
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                    Well, I figured out the problem, but I don't know how to fix it. I have taken my laptop off of the active directory domain, and I can connect fine with WPA2 and no difficulty whatsoever. However, I would like to be able to use this with AD so I am trying to figure out how I can accomplish this. If you have any ideas let me know. I am going to start trying to research some things on my end, but I know it has to be possible.

                    Thanks
                    Eckman

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                      eckman
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                      Since this has gone to the topic of DNS, Wireless, and Active directory do you want me to start a new thread involving that somewhere else on the forum.

                      Thanks
                      Eckman

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