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    NAT reflection still broken???

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      jlepthien
      last edited by

      Well there must be something there. It is working and others have reported so as well. Did you really try from a different client? Try a web port forward and then try from that other client with http://EXTERNAL_IP and see if that works. That's what I've done.

      | apple fanboy | music lover | network and security specialist | in love with cisco systems |

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        Supermule Banned
        last edited by

        Everything is tested on several different clients…. :S

        Thats why it is so frustrating. The only option left, is to change to bare metal and test it on a physical machine......

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          jlepthien
          last edited by

          That's what I told u b4 ;)

          | apple fanboy | music lover | network and security specialist | in love with cisco systems |

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            Boolah
            last edited by

            Just tested NAT reflection on the following two builds:

            2.0-BETA4 (amd64)
            built on Tue Dec 21 16:10:15 EST 2010

            and

            2.0-BETA4 (i386)
            built on Tue Dec 21 12:44:54 EST 2010

            Didn't have any trouble with either the i386/amd64 builds and both were running in VMs.

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              Supermule Banned
              last edited by

              Which version of Vmware?

              And can you post your VM config in here?

              :)

              @Boolah:

              Just tested NAT reflection on the following two builds:

              2.0-BETA4 (amd64)
              built on Tue Dec 21 16:10:15 EST 2010

              and

              2.0-BETA4 (i386)
              built on Tue Dec 21 12:44:54 EST 2010

              Didn't have any trouble with either the i386/amd64 builds and both were running in VMs.

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                Boolah
                last edited by

                Actually, they were both running in Hyper-V.  I've got VMware Workstation (v7.1.3) which I can test on as well.  Don't have VMs setup for pfSense in VMware, but I'm installing them now and will let you know what I find…

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                  Supermule Banned
                  last edited by

                  Thx mate!! Very kind of you :)

                  Merry christmas!

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                    Boolah
                    last edited by

                    I only tested the i386 build in VMware, but NAT reflection worked there too.  Below is the VMware config (which is very basic):

                    .encoding = "windows-1252"
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "7"
maxvcpus = "4"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilogic"
memsize = "1024"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "pfSense-000003.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "TRUE"
ide1:0.fileName = "E:\Downloads\pfSense-i386.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet0.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
usb.present = "TRUE"
ehci.present = "TRUE"
svga.autodetect = "FALSE"
mks.enable3d = "TRUE"
pciBridge0.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge4.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge4.functions = "8"
pciBridge5.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge5.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge5.functions = "8"
pciBridge6.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge6.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge6.functions = "8"
pciBridge7.present = "TRUE"
pciBridge7.virtualDev = "pcieRootPort"
pciBridge7.functions = "8"
vmci0.present = "TRUE"
roamingVM.exitBehavior = "go"
displayName = "pfSense"
guestOS = "freebsd"
nvram = "pfSense.nvram"
virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted"
extendedConfigFile = "pfSense.vmxf"
ethernet1.present = "TRUE"
ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet1.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet1.addressType = "generated"
ethernet2.present = "TRUE"
ethernet2.virtualDev = "e1000"
ethernet2.wakeOnPcktRcv = "FALSE"
ethernet2.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:08:f9:17"
ethernet1.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:08:f9:21"
ethernet2.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:08:f9:2b"
uuid.location = "56 4d a5 1b bd 36 0e ac-db 0f e5 e6 db 08 f9 17"
uuid.bios = "56 4d a5 1b bd 36 0e ac-db 0f e5 e6 db 08 f9 17"
cleanShutdown = "TRUE"
replay.supported = "FALSE"
replay.filename = ""
ide0:0.redo = ""
pciBridge0.pciSlotNumber = "17"
pciBridge4.pciSlotNumber = "21"
pciBridge5.pciSlotNumber = "22"
pciBridge6.pciSlotNumber = "23"
pciBridge7.pciSlotNumber = "24"
scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "16"
usb.pciSlotNumber = "32"
ethernet0.pciSlotNumber = "33"
ethernet1.pciSlotNumber = "34"
ethernet2.pciSlotNumber = "35"
ehci.pciSlotNumber = "37"
vmci0.pciSlotNumber = "38"
vmotion.checkpointFBSize = "134217728"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"
ethernet1.generatedAddressOffset = "10"
ethernet2.generatedAddressOffset = "20"
vmci0.id = "-620168937"
ide1:0.autodetect = "TRUE"
tools.remindInstall = "TRUE"
sound.present = "FALSE"
floppy0.present = "FALSE"
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                      Supermule Banned
                      last edited by

                      Thx again :)

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                        Supermule Banned
                        last edited by

                        Still not working….updating to latest snapshot 12/23 03:37

                        :'(

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                          Boolah
                          last edited by

                          @Supermule:

                          No luck….it redirects me to the pf login page with NAT reflection enabled. It looses the packages if not.

                          Have you tried with a factory-default config of pfSense (without any packages)?

                          What about the target system (that you're redirecting to) - it isn't running a software firewall that might be blocking the traffic?

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                            Supermule Banned
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                            Nope…its an ISA. FW it is, but the same config on 1.2.3 runs no issues.

                            Funambol sync on the mobiles cannot connect on 2.0 but stops at logging on the mailserver. Running 1.2.3 no issues. Its like the packets never get there.....or they are empty. I havent got a bloody clue of whats wrong....i cant see anything in the logs...nothing is blocked.

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                              Supermule Banned
                              last edited by

                              Still broken for me in a totaly clean install. I havent got a bloody clue….............

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                                Boolah
                                last edited by

                                Does anything show up in a packet capture on your LAN interface for the reflected ports?  If not, is it possible that something else is blocking the traffic (like a layer 3 switch)?

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                                  Supermule Banned
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                                  They are both sitting on the same Vswitch and its not L3 capable.

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                                    Supermule Banned
                                    last edited by

                                    Nope…..nothing at all.... This is SO weird.....

                                    @Boolah:

                                    Does anything show up in a packet capture on your LAN interface for the reflected ports?  If not, is it possible that something else is blocking the traffic (like a layer 3 switch)?

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                                      Guest
                                      last edited by

                                      It wasn't working for me one time, I did a reinstall on my pfsense box and then it worked… same build and everything. Make sure to play around with nat reflection stuff first before touching any of the packages, that seemed to make it work for me.

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                                        Supermule Banned
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                                        Thx :)  I had it working for a short while yesterday evening, but it broke after a couple of changes to the DNS Forwarder. It is really weird….like it stays down when changed or something has an influence on how it works.

                                        @jigglywiggly:

                                        It wasn't working for me one time, I did a reinstall on my pfsense box and then it worked… same build and everything. Make sure to play around with nat reflection stuff first before touching any of the packages, that seemed to make it work for me.

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                                          Kzor
                                          last edited by

                                          I've found that if you enable reflection and have the pfsense web config listening on the same port you as the one you want to connect to (lets say 80 and you have a externally accessible web server running on port 80 too) and you try to connect using your external IP from the internal network, it will connect to the web config.
                                          Changing the web config port fixes the problem.

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                                            Supermule Banned
                                            last edited by

                                            Thx will try that. But in 1.2.3 this is not necessary…..what is stripped from the packages since the PF cannot tell the difference??

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