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      lockheed
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      @Supermule:

      Do you have an outbound nat rule in place that seperate subnet?

      http://i.imgur.com/L5FrSeb.png
      Is that it?

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        gjaltemba
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        @lockheed:

        @Supermule:

        Move it above the block all rule and then its fine.

        I don't think I have a block all rule. And if you mean "RFC 1918 networks" and "Reserved/not assigned by IANA", then it is not possible.

        You can try unchecking the box “Block private networks” on the screen Interfaces WAN (at the bottom) and see if that solves your problem.

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          lockheed
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          @gjaltemba:

          You can try unchecking the box “Block private networks” on the screen Interfaces WAN (at the bottom) and see if that solves your problem.

          That's one of those things I tried and forgot to mention  :(

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            doktornotor Banned
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            Perhaps you could finally look at the firewall logs?!?!?

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              Supermule Banned
              last edited by

              Nope…

              It looks like this...

              Menu -> Firewall -> NAT -> Outbound

              outbound_nat.PNG
              outbound_nat.PNG_thumb

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                lockheed
                last edited by

                @doktornotor:

                Perhaps you could finally look at the firewall logs?!?!?

                What am I looking for? I already said I could see nothing related to the IP I am accessing the web server from.

                @Supermule:

                Nope…

                It looks like this...

                Menu -> Firewall -> NAT -> Outbound

                That's what I have:
                http://i.imgur.com/fWWY3XA.png

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                  gjaltemba
                  last edited by

                  @lockheed:

                  @gjaltemba:

                  You can try unchecking the box “Block private networks” on the screen Interfaces WAN (at the bottom) and see if that solves your problem.

                  That's one of those things I tried and forgot to mention  :(

                  But the screen shot of the firewall rules shows Block private networks is in effect. I am confused.

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                    lockheed
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                    @gjaltemba:

                    But the screen shot of the firewall rules shows Block private networks is in effect. I am confused.

                    Because I re-enabled it after I found out it did not change anything. Anyway, now I have it disabled again.

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                      gjaltemba
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                      @lockheed:

                      ★ My setup:

                      Host (ArchLinux, nanoBox):
                      Physical interfaces: with eth0 (no ip) and wlan0 (hostapd).
                      Virtual interfaces: br0 (static IP 192.168.7.2 assigned with netctl profile)

                      Guest (pfSense inside KVM):
                      Guest interfaces:
                      vtnet0 - bridged to eth0
                      vtnet1 - bridged to br0 (192.168.7.1)

                      My Host is also a web sever. I do not know if this is good practice, but br0 is the interface which which host services connect to internet.

                      Does this mean pfsense WAN interface is assigned to vtnet1, has a static ip of 192.168.7.1 and pfsense LAN interface is assigned to vtnet0?

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                        lockheed
                        last edited by

                        @gjaltemba:

                        Does this mean pfsense WAN interface is assigned to vtnet1, has a static ip of 192.168.7.1 and pfsense LAN interface is assigned to vtnet0?

                        No, the other way around:
                        eth0-WAN-85.x.x.x-vtnet0
                        br0-LAN-192.168.7.1-vtnet1

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                          gjaltemba
                          last edited by

                          @lockheed:

                          @gjaltemba:

                          Does this mean pfsense WAN interface is assigned to vtnet1, has a static ip of 192.168.7.1 and pfsense LAN interface is assigned to vtnet0?

                          No, the other way around:
                          eth0-WAN-85.x.x.x-vtnet0
                          br0-LAN-192.168.7.1-vtnet1

                          Does 192.168.7.2 have 192.168.7.1 as gateway? I am guessing not because it has internet with pfsense in shutdown.

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                            lockheed
                            last edited by

                            @gjaltemba:

                            Does 192.168.7.2 have 192.168.7.1 as gateway?
                            Yes.
                            @gjaltemba:

                            I am guessing not because it has internet with pfsense in shutdown.

                            No, it doesn't. It only has LAN if I set br0 to static IP. I can then connect to it with my laptop (also with static IP) which connects to hostapd (bridged with br0).

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                              hda
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                              @lockheed:

                              …
                              Well, I need my server on the LAN to be accessible from WAN.

                              Test approach: simplify your config, exclude your reliance on aliases & name(s).

                              You need probably:
                              [Firewall: NAT: Port Forward] with a rule like:
                              WAN TCP * * WAN address 80 192.168.x.y 80

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                                lockheed
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                                @hda:

                                Test approach: simplify your config, exclude your reliance on aliases & name(s).

                                Thanks, but
                                @lockheed:

                                (nanoBox alias is assigned to 192.168.7.2 ip. Replacing alias with the ip itself makes no difference)

                                I have a new find that might shed some light on the source of the problem.

                                When I am on the host, pinging google.com works BUT going to google.com in a browser or with wget does not. In fact, no URL address works at all in any other capacity than PING.

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                                  Supermule Banned
                                  last edited by

                                  Change your outbound nat for the subnet to include UDP as well.

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                                    lockheed
                                    last edited by

                                    @Supermule:

                                    Change your outbound nat for the subnet to include UDP as well.

                                    Like so? http://i.imgur.com/4jgDqJj.png
                                    It didn't help.

                                    Also, please remember that those issues are experienced only on the Host of the pfSense VM. Every other pfSense manager LAN client works just fine.

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                                      doktornotor Banned
                                      last edited by

                                      @lockheed:

                                      @Supermule:

                                      Change your outbound nat for the subnet to include UDP as well.

                                      Like so? http://i.imgur.com/4jgDqJj.png
                                      It didn't help.

                                      There is nothing useful visible there at all regarding protocol. (And please, learn to use the IMG tag.)

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                                        lockheed
                                        last edited by

                                        @doktornotor:

                                        There is nothing useful visible there at all regarding protocol. (And please, learn to use the IMG tag.)

                                        I selected ALL protocols. As for IMG, I am giving links to images because I did not want to clutter the thread with auto-displaying images.

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                                          lockheed
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                                          I just created an identical pfSense on VirtualBox and cloned the config on it. Everything works fine.

                                          Here's the ifconfig of KVM setup:

                                          ifconfig 
br0: flags=4163<up,broadcast,running,multicast>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.7.2  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.7.255
        inet6 fe80::4ccb:a9ff:feb7:5617  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether a0:88:69:0d:5c:41  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 2825  bytes 330247 (322.5 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 3339  bytes 802554 (783.7 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

enp2s0: flags=4163<up,broadcast,running,multicast>  mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::5ea1:75a3:7d46:befd  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 00:90:27:77:fb:02  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 223027  bytes 20719723 (19.7 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 178  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 6747  bytes 2101069 (2.0 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<up,loopback,running>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10 <host>loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 12388  bytes 1341938 (1.2 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 12388  bytes 1341938 (1.2 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

macvtap0: flags=4163<up,broadcast,running,multicast>  mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::26f4:1e55:97a0:c0cb  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 00:90:27:77:fb:02  txqueuelen 500  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 217268  bytes 20328935 (19.3 MiB)
        RX errors 8919  dropped 8919  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 6620  bytes 2073711 (1.9 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

vnet0: flags=4163<up,broadcast,running,multicast>  mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::5d6b:398c:6b44:d602  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether fe:54:00:6f:2e:15  txqueuelen 500  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 4558  bytes 4062075 (3.8 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 4583  bytes 624983 (610.3 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlp1s0: flags=4163<up,broadcast,running,multicast>  mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::6e57:fe92:1321:1521  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether a0:88:69:0d:5c:41  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 6040  bytes 811010 (792.0 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 7038  bytes 4986969 (4.7 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0</up,broadcast,running,multicast></up,broadcast,running,multicast></up,broadcast,running,multicast></host></up,loopback,running></up,broadcast,running,multicast></up,broadcast,running,multicast>

                                          and of a much cleaner, and - more importantly - working VirtualBox setup:

                                          # ifconfig 
br0: flags=4163<up,broadcast,running,multicast>mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.7.2  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.7.255
        inet6 fe80::a288:69ff:fe0d:5c41  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether a0:88:69:0d:5c:41  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 4999  bytes 1686341 (1.6 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 9269  bytes 2203282 (2.1 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

enp2s0: flags=4163<up,broadcast,running,multicast>mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.11.13  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.11.255
        inet6 fe80::201:2eff:fe4e:4b99  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether 00:01:2e:4e:4b:99  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 175668  bytes 58689989 (55.9 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 35  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 33594  bytes 2862399 (2.7 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<up,loopback,running>mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10 <host>loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 44600  bytes 11957420 (11.4 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 44600  bytes 11957420 (11.4 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlp1s0: flags=4163<up,broadcast,running,multicast>mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::a288:69ff:fe0d:5c41  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20
        ether a0:88:69:0d:5c:41  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 4400  bytes 1698452 (1.6 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 8264  bytes 2315002 (2.2 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0</up,broadcast,running,multicast></host></up,loopback,running></up,broadcast,running,multicast></up,broadcast,running,multicast>

                                          So it looks like KVM is not suitable for hosting pfSense VM if host machine is required have access to the internet. It is a shame as I was hoping for KVM to be not just working, but a superior solution.

                                          Can someone move this thread to Virtualization?

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