Unable to make inbound connections through firewall
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Hello..happy new year to all.
For the first time today, I have noticed that I am unable to configure the firewall for incoming connections to the LAN.
I have been trying since this morning and it's been a new years nightmare!
I have reinstalled PFsense from scratch and still no joy.
The process is simple enough, but I unable to configure PCAnywhere to connect to the computers on the LAN even though I have configured the firewall to forward the ports from any to the specific Lan address.
has anyone else experienced this problem?
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Can you show screenshots of your NAT and firewall rules?
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Someone should create a smiley with a whip!
I got it working the way it should, after remembering many hours too late, that I needed to try connecting using another separate internet connection and when I did, PCAnywhere logged in, no problems. (is there a way around this using pfsense?)
However, I had to download stable 1.2.3 and do a new install.
Of help to someone else is a small program I came across called PFPort Checker. You can use this program to check TCP/UDP connections on the target computer as online Port Checkers may not give the proper response for the connectionless UDP Ports you are trying to check.
http://www.portforward.com/help/portcheck.htm
Thanks for responding though a false alarm.
Should be getting the PFsense book this week and I can't wait! -
I got it working the way it should, after remembering many hours too late, that I needed to try connecting using another separate internet connection and when I did, PCAnywhere logged in, no problems. (is there a way around this using pfsense?)
Enable NAT reflection under advanced.
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I could have done that all this time?? :'(
Thanks.
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Yes.
But it's generally better if you could set up split DNS.
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can%27t_I_access_forwarded_ports_on_my_WAN_IP_from_my_LAN/OPTx_networks%3F
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explains that better.
