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    Problem with two lan networks and access to ap

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      firefox
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      @doktornotor:

      Well, I would suggest to flush the traffic shaping down the drain for starters.

      @kejianshi:

      I think doktornotor is right.  Traffic seems to be working and allowed for the most part on both interfaces.  All I can imagine is that your limiter is breaking the AP interface access.

      I tried without rules
      I tried to freeze them
      Or removing them
      Still the same result

      @stephenw10:

      IPv4/IPv6 issue? I don't think v6 is enabled by default in release, not sure though.

      Steve

      Indeed ipv6 off
      I tried to run it but it requires ipv6
      How do I fill it

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        kejianshi
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        OK - So now I need to ask some dumb questions.

        Have you power-cycled the AP?  What model AP is it?  Are you running squid or snort or any packages?  Which packages?

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          firefox
          last edited by

          @kejianshi:

          OK - So now I need to ask some dumb questions.

          Have you power-cycled the AP?  What model AP is it?  Are you running squid or snort or any packages?  Which packages?

          I turned off and turned it on several times during attempts to look at why I do not have access to it

          I do have a snort and squid
          The interface with access to ap installed after the installation of packages
          And there was no problem

          It works just right

          level one WBR-3406TX Wireless Broadband NAT Router

          The only difference I see in Dashboard
          It is in
          Services Status
          Appears apinger Gateway Monitoring Daemon was not in 2.0.3

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            kejianshi
            last edited by

            Usually when I see someone troubleshooting a problem with SNORT running I just abandon the thread, however…

            In services > proxy Server:

            can you check the box for "Bypass proxy for Private Address Space (RFC 1918) destination" and save.

            Then can you reboot pfsense and the AP

            Then try again.

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              firefox
              last edited by

              Still no access

              weird

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                firefox
                last edited by

                I do not think it is blocked
                Because it worked great before upgrading

                Could it be because the gateway

                The new package appears under Services Status

                apinger – Gateway Monitoring Daemon

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                  doktornotor Banned
                  last edited by

                  @kejianshi:

                  Usually when I see someone troubleshooting a problem with SNORT running I just abandon the thread, however…

                  Disable snort? Works? Disable both snort and squid? Works? And with that, I'm out of this thread, following the good advice above, essential for mental sanity.

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                    kejianshi
                    last edited by

                    This thing is a full-on broadband router - Are you 100% sure your are NOT running any of its many functions that will break its ability to play well with pfsense?

                    level one WBR-3406TX Wireless Broadband NAT Router

                    Please do me a favor…  Draw me a diagram how this this is connected also.

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                      firefox
                      last edited by

                      When I changed this router to ap
                      I followed online Guide
                      I canceled the dhcp
                      I canceled the firewall
                      I plugged to the lan port
                      I gave him a fixed address outside the range of dhcp addresses of pfsense

                      The only thing there is a network name ssid
                      And password to the network

                      And again it worked properly for six months
                      Just two days ago after upgraded the pfsense
                      I do not have access to the management interface

                      I have not changed anything there

                      again
                      Thanks for the help

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                        kejianshi
                        last edited by

                        OK - I'm going to go ahead and join you in not knowing whats wrong.

                        Is this a stand alone machine?

                        Could you boot this pfsense from livecd with no packages and no rules and try?

                        This way can know if 2.1 works for you but maybe your settings or packages are just screwed up.

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                          firefox
                          last edited by

                          @kejianshi:

                          Is this a stand alone machine?

                          I did not understand what it means stand alone machine ?

                          I will describe what I have

                          I took a computer without an operating system with nothing
                          I added three network cards

                          Downloaded from the website of pfsense
                          Version 2.0.3 to burn to disc

                          I turned on the computer and installed the system

                          Beyond that I do not have much access to this computer
                          One network card connected to the modem
                          Second network card is connected to the switch
                          Third network card connected to AP

                          I do not have a disk with version 2.1
                          I'll have to download and burn

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                            kejianshi
                            last edited by

                            I would try it with a livecd.  This way you don't have to go changing settings to experiment to find out if its just the settings or packages.
                            You can tinker and the changes will not be permanent.

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                              firefox
                              last edited by

                              OK
                              I downloaded the file, burn it
                              I turned on the system from the disk
                              I defined the interfaces according to what I wrote earlier

                              I currently browses through the operating system disk

                              Still no access

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                The IPv4/v6 thing is not relevant here. With it enabled by default in the beta and RC images it sometime caused odd connection problems when people had broken IPv6 implenmentations at their ISP or router/AP.

                                My money is on Snort. Do the Snort get correctly copied across the update? Check the logs, what is being blocked?

                                Steve

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                                  firefox
                                  last edited by

                                  @stephenw10:

                                  My money is on Snort. Do the Snort get correctly copied across the update? Check the logs, what is being blocked?

                                  I currently browses through the live cd
                                  No package

                                  Still no access

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Lost that bet then!  ::)

                                    Check the firewall logs anything blocked? You've unchecked 'block private networks'?

                                    Forget accessing the webgui of the AP. Try some basic pinging. Try to ping everything from everything else! Check the logs again.

                                    Steve

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                                      firefox
                                      last edited by

                                      There Pings
                                      Both to ap
                                      Well as computer connected wirelessly to ap

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                        last edited by

                                        Sorry I'm not sure quite what you mean there. What can ping what?  :-\

                                        Steve

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                                          firefox
                                          last edited by

                                          i can ping from a computer that Connected to the Wired network
                                          to the AP
                                          to a computer connected to the Wireless Network

                                          And Reverse

                                          i can ping from a computer that Connected to the Wireless Network
                                          to a computer connected to the wired Network

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            Ok.
                                            Can you ping from the pfSense box to the AP? to a wireless client?
                                            Can you ping from the AP to the pfSense box or a wired client?

                                            I have a router I use as an access point that behaves exactly as yours is doing and the reason is that it has no route to get packets back to clients on the other subnet. The AP/router usually uses it's WAN port for anything that isn't in its LAN subnet but in this scenario it has no WAN so it has no route. I have successfully worked around this by setting a subnet mask on the AP that contains all the local subnets, i.e. /16 However I have an AP this doesn't work for.
                                            That doesn't explain why it worked fine under 2.0.3 though.  :-\

                                            Steve

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