Pfsense 2.1 PS3 and Netflix

Rickinfl · Mar 9, 2013, 10:48 PM

Ok after days of reading and trying different things I still have no luck. Here's what's going on. Netflix on my PS3 is not working it will load a movie up (The red bar fills all the way up) but doesn't load anything.

UPnP & NAT-PMP is enabled.

Under NAT Manual Outbound NAT rule generation (AON - Advanced Outbound NAT) Enabled.

I tried turning off HAVP… No Luck.

This only happens on the PS3. Netflix plays on my NeoTV and Computers just fine. So I figured its something to do with the PS3 and a setting I have wrong somewhere.

Any help or point in the right direction would be Great!

Thank You

Fmslick · Mar 14, 2013, 5:07 AM

Hello there!

have you found a fix for this?
if so could you plz post what you did to make it work?
i am having the same issue whit my LG tv, loads up the red bar to full/100% and then nothing happen's.

-Thanks

Rickinfl · Mar 15, 2013, 1:54 PM

Yes I figured out my problem. Squid was blocking me. I went into Proxy Server > General Settings scroll down until you see "Bypass proxy for these source IP's" and add your PS3's IP address there. You can add more than 1 IP. Soon as I did that it took off working.

I did Static my PS3 machines and started UPnP & NAT-PMP then added each PS3 into the "User Specified Permissions"

Then in Added them into the Firewall.

I gave them Static IP's to allow ONLY them to bypass things. In my setup in pfSense I used the /32 to make sure and not the /24. Example 10.10.10.10/32

I really didn't care if the PS3's bypassed everything it's the Computers I'm worried about that's WHY I Static my PS3's.

I always Static everything I have Control over it better. I'm not a Big DHCP fan, but I do use it for Wireless, BUT I MAC address all my Wireless anyway so nobody gets in.

Mar 17, 2013, 11:04 PM

I haven't had problem with PS3/netflix and the 2.1 beta with Squid, transparent proxy.
Works well.

Fmslick · Mar 18, 2013, 9:33 AM

@Rickinfl:

Yes I figured out my problem. Squid was blocking me. I went into Proxy Server > General Settings scroll down until you see "Bypass proxy for these source IP's" and add your PS3's IP address there. You can add more than 1 IP. Soon as I did that it took off working.

I did Static my PS3 machines and started UPnP & NAT-PMP then added each PS3 into the "User Specified Permissions"

Then in Added them into the Firewall.

I gave them Static IP's to allow ONLY them to bypass things. In my setup in pfSense I used the /32 to make sure and not the /24. Example 10.10.10.10/32

I really didn't care if the PS3's bypassed everything it's the Computers I'm worried about that's WHY I Static my PS3's.

I always Static everything I have Control over it better. I'm not a Big DHCP fan, but I do use it for Wireless, BUT I MAC address all my Wireless anyway so nobody gets in.

Sweet i'll give that a go an see if it will work for my TV (Don't have ps3) :( anywho i am running 2.0.2 and happen to see this post on google so i will post back if it fix the issue or not.

Fmslick · Mar 24, 2013, 8:20 AM

So i got it to work and idk if this is a good/right way to do it but all i did was go to " Services >> Proxy server: General settings " and ticked Transparent proxy "If transparent mode is enabled, all requests for destination port 80 will be forwarded to the proxy server without any additional configuration necessary." & added the ip address of my tv but as i was testing i got it to work with out no ip address in the box.

So idk if this way is the right way to fix this issue but it works.