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    Outbound NAT not working for OPT interfaces

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      marvosa
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      Post a pic of the blocks.

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        theNADS
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        Not everything shows as being blocked. I can see in /var/log/filter.log a dig google.com is getting blocked:

        Oct 20 16:29:41 gateway pf: 00:00:03.003187 rule 3/0(match): block in on em0: (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 63826, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 96)
        Oct 20 16:29:41 gateway pf:    192.168.40.2.33249 > 192.168.40.1.53: 33813+ A? safebrowsing.clients.google.com.googlespy.co.uk. (68)

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          theNADS
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            theNADS
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            I have discovered option 10 on the ssh login menu and everything does seem to be getting blocked regardless of the allow anything rule that has been set.

            The block private networks setting on the OPT interface in question has been tried checked as well as uncheck and it did not make any difference (it has been left unchecked again now). Resetting the states also did resolve anything.

            I am running out of ideas now!

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              Supermule Banned
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              I think he meant the networks blocks and not the firewall blocks….. ;)

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                theNADS
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                :o

                WAN 192.168.24.254 (192.168.24.0/24) gw address 192.168.24.1
                LAN 192.168.32.1  (192.168.32.0/24)
                WIFI 192.168.38.1  (192.168.38.0/24)
                OPT 192.168.40.1  (192.168.40.0/24)

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                  Supermule Banned
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                  And then you post the pictures of all outbound NAT rules ;)

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                    theNADS
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                    The outbound nat rules are as listed in one of my earlier posts. I am not at work anymore so I will post a screen shot in the morning showing that this is the case. I deleted the outbound nat rules before i reset the states. So after switching to auto and then back to manual outbound rules there were a couple of additional rules added that do not randomise ports during NAT. The auto generated rules were also /32 for the opt interfaces so I changed these to a /24 for the opt interface subnets.

                    Essentially outbound  NAT is still as my earlier post.  :-\

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                      marvosa
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                      Also the blocks from your screenshot are coming from the "PCI" interface, which you say is OPT2.  Post the firewall rules from all your interfaces.

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                        theNADS
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                        I have referred to one of the interfaces as OPT to make the post easier to understand. The two optional interfaces are actually named WIFI and PCI.

                        The interfaces have been set with these names from the begining. I renamed them as soon as I logged in to the wui.

                        The rules for each interface are set exactly as I have mentioned above. The only difference between the rules on the LAN interface and the OPT1/OPT2 or PCI/WIFI interfaces is that the LAN has the anti lock out rule and an ipv6      allow everything everywhere outbound rule. On the OPT1/OPT2 or the PCI/WIFI interfaces I have only added ipv4 rules the that should be allowing everything everywhere outbound. I will post images in the morning.

                        I have also been wondering if the IP address settings on each interface might be incorrect. I think I may have given the OPT1/OPT2 or PCI/WIFI interfaces a 192.168.38.1/32  and a 192.168.40.1/32 IP address/addresses. I might try a /24 on these interfaces in the morning as well!

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                          marvosa
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                          Ahhh… yes.... if you gave them a /32 that may be your issue, but we'll see when you check tomorrow.

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                            theNADS
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                            pfSense is up and running fine now. The /32 setting on the OPT interfaces was the issue!!! A simple balls up that had me completely lost until I had a brain wave last night.

                            I should have guessed this earlier really. When the outbound NAT rules were autogenerated I kept changing them to NAT the whole subnet rather than just the interface address!!!

                            This is the issue when you use a forum to ask for help you know you will ultimately look like a numpty when your error is found! Thanks for your assistance anyway it helped me think things through until I realised what the problem was.

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