Connecting two lans (pfsense) with static routing (RESOLVED)

[thegambler]

Hello,

Please excuse my question as it may be a newbe question but i have spent hours trying to figure this out.

I have 2 networks,
Lan network 1 is 172.16.0.0/24
Lan network 2 is 172.16.1.0/24
i have 2 wan internet connections coming in to each firewall. with different static ip addresses for each.
both networks are connected by a router with the addresses of 10.40.34.128/27 and a gateway of 10.40.34.129.

Illistration below

Vlan
                                  |
                 /_________+
                  |          Router               |
                  |    10.40.34.128/27        |
                  |         Gateway             |
                  |      10.40.34.129          |
                  \–-----+-------+-------/
                        |            |         |-----------Internet
                        |                                          |        |
 Internet-----|    |                                          |        |
                 /-+--+------\         STATIC          /-+------+----
                |10.40.34.133|  route to LAN 2 ->   |10.40.34.134  |
                | pfsense1    |         STATIC           |   pfsense2    |
                | 172.16.0.1  | <- route to LAN 1     | 172.16.1.1    |
                ------+-----/                             -----+--------/
                          |                                             |
                 172.16.0.0/24                              172.16.1.0/24
                          |                                             |
                      LAN 1                                        LAN 2

What i am tring to do is set up a network link between the 2 pfsense firewals so lan 1 can talk to lan 2 and lan 2 can talk to lan 1
Interfaces settings on lan 1 firewall
WAN: 200.50.XXX.XXX
OPT 10.40.34.128/24 Gateway 10.40.34.129
LAN 172.16.0.1/24

Interfaces settings on lan 2 firewall
WAN: 200.50.XXX.XXX
OPT 10.40.34.128/24 Gateway 10.40.34.129
LAN 172.16.1.1/24
I appreciate any help or advice on this matter.

i have set up a static route on each pfsense that reads the following
pfsense 1
Interface  PRIVATE
Destination network  172.16.0.0/ 24
Gateway  10.34.40.134

pfsense 2
Interface  PRIVATE
Destination network  172.16.1.0/ 24
Gateway  10.34.40.133

I can ping 10.40.34.133 from pfsense 2 but cant ping any lan addresses behind it.

I can ping 10.40.34.134 from pfsense 1 but cant ping any lan addresses behind it.

Thanks in advance
Rich

[thegambler]

Ok i got it and i think it was so stupid of me.
i needed to use the 10.34.40.xxx ip address prior to the pfsense i was trying to communicate i would be considered the last ip before my connection. works great now.

So now i know the gateway is actually the last ip address prior to the router were the network your trying to connect is for a static route.

I had them backwards.

i have set up a static route on each pfsense that reads the following
pfsense 1
Interface  PRIVATE
Destination network  172.16.0.0/ 24
Gateway  10.34.40.133

pfsense 2
Interface  PRIVATE
Destination network  172.16.1.0/ 24
Gateway  10.34.40.134

[Supermule]

I dont understand your setup…..Why do you do it this way?? Is this a wireless access point (10.40.34.128/27)?? or is it because your boxes only have one WAN each??

[thegambler]

no not at all, i have a server account with softlayer and running 2 esx 4.0 servers, all my ip addresses are portable and i have a public /27 portable and a private /27 portable vlan. and i have no access to the router on the private lan. i could have ordered one from them but they took 2 weeks to get my portables connected right and for me to conect the 2 server lans together it was the only thing i could think of. it is working fine right now as i have 2 DNS servers one on each server and they update eachother. just a big learning curve  ??? but i am getting there, just having some other issues lik having the 2 pfsense talk to eachother keeps saying error reading daa or somthing.