D-Link DWR-921 3g/4g modem in transparant bridge not working on WAN pfSense DHCP
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I have the same manual :)
Both settings are not giving the pfSense a ip address. I don't think it's the modem. I think the pfSense needs some other settings. Because all other devices do work.
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Just to verify that there isn't something funky in the setup, could you post a screen shot of "Interfaces->WAN" from your pfSense box?
You didn't mention what hardware you're running on, perhaps there's an oddity with the type of NIC you're using in pfSense.
You might try swapping the assignments for LAN and WAN to see if a different NIC type has a better chance of negotiating DHCP.
One last thought, have you power cycled the DWR-921 between different attempts?
I have seen an issue on some DSL modems where they maintain previous MAC addresses used and won't hand out anything new until they have been rebooted. -
The hardware is PC Engines Alix.2D13 on pfSense 2.1.5. Also tried the Alix.APU1D4 on 2.2.1 with no luck. These were new installs of pfSense.
I didn't try different NIC's because they are all the same and i tried the APU.1D4 which has newer NIC's.
Yes, i power cycled. But that didn't help.
I tried disabling packet filtering. At that moment i was able to ping from the WAN interface. At LAN still no traffic. Firewall rules are standard rules.
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Anyone??
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Same problem here, i get the external IP on the pfsense WAN but it can´t do the routing between the LAN and the WAN.
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It´s a firewall problem on the pfsense , just add a floating rule on the WAN to allow all trafic and it start to working .
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Thanks Telmocalhaco!! That seems to work. I'm not familiar with floating rules so i need to figure out what i'm doing exactly.
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This sounds like some funky forced promiscuous mode
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous_mode
Like the IP address set is the gateway, like you're supposed to send all packets out, no real gateway specified. I assume it's so that a cell tower can respond, no matter the IP address it happens to have. This is how amazon handles its instances behind a transparent nat.
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Did anyone resolve this issue? i have a DWR-921 too with DG issue in transparent brigde mode. How did you get the DG to be picked up with DHCP?
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See telmocalhaco's answer. This solved the problem for me at the time.
Although the setup was not stable for a us. Connection was failing a lot. Had to reconnect to 4G to get it al back working again.
The modem isn't in transparant mode anymore. pfSense is getting a 192.168.x.x ip address from the D-Link now and this setup is stable now for a few months. The 4G connection is just an internet connection no NAT ar anything so the solution is acceptable for us.
If you figured out to get the connection working & stable i would like to here it.
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It´s a firewall problem on the pfsense , just add a floating rule on the WAN to allow all trafic and it start to working .
hi i have the same scenario how did you make the floating rule I can’t seem to get it to work
I have 2 wan a dsl and now I use d-link as a backup 4g wanI get an external ip address on the port but can’t route traffic and it show the gateway as offline
please help I have a bad internet I have the latest pfsense