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    Pfsense-router doesn't show up in traceroute

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    • K Offline
      krisken
      last edited by

      All,

      Any idea what option i did checked/non-checked so that my pfsense router don't show up? 
      I think that's the first part of the problem :)

      Kris

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        dragon2611
        last edited by

        @krisken:

        All,

        Any idea what option i did checked/non-checked so that my pfsense router don't show up? 
        I think that's the first part of the problem :)

        Kris

        Jimp seems to be suggesting it's because of policy based routing, which may explain things as mine isn't setup to do any policy based routing and is showing up.

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          inflamer
          last edited by

          @dragon2611:

          @inflamer:

          Hi Krisken,

          you would need to add a reverse record (PTR) in your local DNS server for 10.2.0.1 which is resolvable from the PC you are running traceroute on, in order for having the pfsense hop appear as rtr-fw01.office.it2go.eu [10.0.0.1]. Since the 192.168.100.1 hop appears as wifi.office.it2go.eu [192.168.100.1], it seems you already created a PTR record for this address.

          Andreas

          It should still show as an ip address even if the RDNS doesn't resolve.

          Mine shows up, but then i'm not presently using multi-wan for anything.

          In that case I misunderstood, I thought the problem was that 10.1.0.1 was showing up without hostname, but I see now that he is expecting 10.0.0.1 to show up, while it isn't.

          A

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            eri--
            last edited by

            It is correct that pfSense will not show up when used with PBR.
            Not sure a fix should be done for this or not!

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            • jimpJ Offline
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              An FAQ entry should be enough. I'll add one. I don't think it's worth coding a fix to make it show up.

              EDIT: FAQ added: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Router_is_Missing_from_traceroute_Output

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                krisken
                last edited by

                @jimp:

                An FAQ entry should be enough. I'll add one. I don't think it's worth coding a fix to make it show up.

                EDIT: FAQ added: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Router_is_Missing_from_traceroute_Output

                So if i do understand it all well, that's quite normal and there isn't a solution for it?
                I tought that my pfsense router did show up in the beginning that i use pfsense.

                Kris

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                • jimpJ Offline
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  If you use normal routing, it does show up.

                  If you use policy routing (e.g. selected a gateway in a rule, typically for multi-wan) then it does not show up.

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                    krisken
                    last edited by

                    @jimp:

                    If you use normal routing, it does show up.

                    If you use policy routing (e.g. selected a gateway in a rule, typically for multi-wan) then it does not show up.

                    http://krisken.dommel.be/pfsense/rules.jpg
                    So like that…isn't possible?

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                    • jimpJ Offline
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      If you always had gateways set on every rule like that, then pfSense shouldn't have ever shown up as a hop when tracing outbound.

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                        krisken
                        last edited by

                        @jimp:

                        If you always had gateways set on every rule like that, then pfSense shouldn't have ever shown up as a hop when tracing outbound.

                        It has always been like that indeed.  So probably i'm wrong :)
                        Thanks for the great help!

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