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    Having issues setting up pfSense and using printer on different subnet

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      wango tango
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I have set up pfSense and am using the captive portal.  That works great to the internet.

      I am having problems, however, with a printer.  I set up a vlan interface (10.0.0.254) on my switch in the same subnet as the pfSense LAN ip (10.0.0.1).  I set up a route to a printer (10.1.1.101) using this 10.0.0.254 interface as the next hop.  I've also added FW rules.

      When we try to print, the printer gets information, starts to think a bit and warm up, then hangs.  I'm thinking there is something broken with return traffic, as it just hangs.  When we bypass pfSense and add a static route to 10.0.0.254, it works.

      So in summary…

      client IP 10.0.0.5 ---> 10.0.0.1 ----> 10.0.0.254 ----> 10.1.1.101 doesnt work
      client IP 10.0.0.5 ---> 10.0.0.254 ----> 10.1.1.101 works

      What are we doing wrong?  What can I do to troubleshoot this?

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        wango tango
        last edited by

        i should also mention, i can ping both ways.

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          podilarius
          last edited by

          I will assume you setup the routing in the routing section of pfSense correctly since you can ping. perhaps you want to turn off the advanced option to bypass firewall rules if leaving the same interface. Otherwise you are going to have to traceroute and what tcp dumps at the switch or firewall.does the printer and the other side of that route know how to get back to pfsense or the computer?

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            wango tango
            last edited by

            that didnt work, but turning off the fw entirely did.

            any more ideas??!

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              wango tango
              last edited by

              went with plan b.  just moved the printers.

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