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    MUTLI WAN & NAT ??? [SOLVED - Reply#10]

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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      If you used "pass" on the port forward, it will not work with any non-default route WAN, and it can't work with "pass".

      Change that to "add associated firewall rule" and then save/apply the port forward. Do that for every port forward you have that uses 'pass'

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        Marv21
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        @jimp:

        If you used "pass" on the port forward, it will not work with any non-default route WAN, and it can't work with "pass".

        Change that to "add associated firewall rule" and then save/apply the port forward. Do that for every port forward you have that uses 'pass'

        Sry I was not accurate  enough. I used pass in the Firewall rule, not block and not reject.

        BTW: add associated firewall rule is the default setting, when you create a NAT rule.

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          I'll still need to see the config.xml and /tmp/rules.debug. A screenshot of that doesn't tell me enough about what it's doing in the background.

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            robtoronto
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            Hey Jim, Ok I fully understand and now agree with you.; I just got in from a 14 hour shift and have been dealing with recovery of failed modules and stacks we had go down lastnight. I am very tired and do not think I can put my full 100% into this right at this moment. I will grab a copy of my current config, but just to note this is a working copy. I would like to get a 'not' working copy to you also. I would love to do the comparison by my self also, The more I think about it without actually doing it is just racking my brain and have also thought about what you said and you are correct, it very well could be a PFSense configuration issue. From a networking perspective I do know that default route could of been causing the issue. But enough guessing , I will upload a working config today to get you started and I cant promise tomorrow night when I get in from work since I'm sure I will still be swamped at work. But when I get up Monday, I will completely re-install from 2.0.1 -> upgrade to 2.0.2 and cause my same issue.

            and on a note of multiple users, I have people that I know in person and I have read 1 more post on another site. It was no help, but I will try and find that again for you.

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              robtoronto
              last edited by

              Here is my raw config.xml & /tmp/rules.debug

              http://m37offroading.ca/PFSENSE/config.xml

              http://m37offroading.ca/PFSENSE/rules.debug

              I have also uploaded them on the redmine post. I will get you copies of the failed config.xml and rules.debug by Monday.

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                FYI- You only have the port forward in there once. It should be in there twice (once for each WAN). The WAN rules look OK though.

                rdr on nfe0 proto tcp from any to 24.212.178.88 port $Cloud -> $Server
                pass  in log  quick  on $THOMSONWAN reply-to ( re0 198.84.211.65 )  proto tcp  from any to   $Server port $Cloud  flags S/SA keep state  label "USER_RULE: Allow Server to Cloud on ThomsonWAN"
                pass  in log  quick  on $MOTOROLAWAN reply-to ( nfe0 24.212.178.65 )  proto tcp  from any to   $Server port $Cloud  flags S/SA keep state  label "USER_RULE: Allow Server to Cloud on MotorolaWAN"
                
                

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                  Efonnes
                  last edited by

                  I saw port forwards for each.  However, was it your intention to have your port forwards use two IP addresses for the redirect target IP? (10.10.10.20 and 10.10.10.30)  I think using an alias with two (or more) addresses in it like that will make the forwarding cycle through the addresses in the alias on each connection attempt, using a different one each time.

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                    robtoronto
                    last edited by

                    ? How could it only be in there once if NAT is working  right now on both IP's, and yes. That example that server runs quad NIC's , the 2 there are used for public traffic.

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                      Marv21
                      last edited by

                      So here we go.
                      This is a RAR with a Working Config and a RAR with a non working config.

                      I send the password over PM to relevant People, because i dont know that i delete all passwords (or change them in the file to FFF/111)

                      http://www.marv21.de/RouterConfig.rar

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        @robtoronto:

                        ? How could it only be in there once if NAT is working  right now on both IP's, and yes. That example that server runs quad NIC's , the 2 there are used for public traffic.

                        Hmm I must have overlooked it, but now the rules.debug file is 404 so I can't check it again. Though Efonne is right about using multiple IPs in the target of a port forward. It will do round-robin connection alternating, it can't forward the same port to both systems and work for both at the same time.
                        And if you really want to do load balancing, use the load balancer, not a port forward, since a port forward with two entries would not be smart enough to remove a down host from the pool when it's not in use so half the connections would just fail.

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                        • jimpJ
                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                          last edited by

                          @Marv21:

                          So here we go.
                          This is a RAR with a Working Config and a RAR with a non working config.

                          I send the password over PM to relevant People, because i dont know that i delete all passwords (or change them in the file to FFF/111)

                          http://www.marv21.de/RouterConfig.rar

                          In your "don't work" folder the config.xml has two GW_WAN entries, but otherwise I don't see anything there that looks obviously out of place upon first glance. The rules have reply-to, so the default gateway shouldn't matter for items hitting the port forward. Though one of your WANs is getting double NAT, so that doesn't help, but it shouldn't interfere. USB nics (your ue0) are crappy in general but shouldn't affect it either.

                          I see you completely reconfigured the two NICs between those two configs, swapping them between "wan" and "opt1". So as it currently is, does the port forward still only work on one WAN? Or does it work on both now?

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                            Marv21
                            last edited by

                            With the "work not" config only the default Gateway works ( in this config the UM WAN ( the dynamic)).

                            AT all iam fine, i swaped the assignment of the WAN1 and WAN2 (em0 and ue0) and everything is ok.

                            Maybe i forgot to delete a Wan entrie (if i swaped the assignment there a two dynamic Gateways for UM), but i correct that, but i doenst help.

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                              robtoronto
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                              Hey, Sorry not sure why it was deleted. It's back on same version. Ok I understand to use load balance if I was going to load balance against 2 web servers to a single nat ip.. but this is not what I am doing or my problem at that.

                              my problem is that the multi wan wont nat , even if I have 1 ip of the servers , so forget " dual server ips ". I still have issues with it allowing nat out on the port. this should work…correct ?

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                                Marv21
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                                @robtoronto:

                                Hey, Sorry not sure why it was deleted. It's back on same version. Ok I understand to use load balance if I was going to load balance against 2 web servers to a single nat ip.. but this is not what I am doing or my problem at that.

                                my problem is that the multi wan wont nat , even if I have 1 ip of the servers , so forget " dual server ips ". I still have issues with it allowing nat out on the port. this should work…correct ?

                                BAD Question, but… Are u trieing it from the outside of your LAN?

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                                  robtoronto
                                  last edited by

                                  of course ;)

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