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    Route a wan ip to a lan ip

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    • A
      Alucardko
      last edited by

      @Cheetohz=topic=122016.msg674060#msg674060:

      I have no problems with the incoming traffic

      I think he is wanting a full DMZ host

      No firewall, NAT, DNS, etc. for one single host on his internal private network.

      Indeed firewall rules are what you want to achieve this

      https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Example_basic_configuration#DMZ_Configuration

      No I dont want DMZ

      @KOM:

      I have no problems with the incoming traffic

      I'm talking specifically about unsolicited incoming traffic, not return traffic from your outbound requests.  Unsolicited private IP traffic is blocked from WAN unless you uncheck that box I mentioned earlier.

      It should be no problem to create a port forward from your WAN to LAN.  Do you have a system on the 192.168.17 network to test your port forward with?

      a system? I dont understand you, you mean If I have router o something similar, for look the forward ports? No I dont manage anything of thar network, is the cause I want use PFsense

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      • KOMK
        KOM
        last edited by

        I was asking because you appear to have a double-NAT situation going on, and your problem may have more to do with your ISP not forwarding your traffic.  I wanted ot see if you could check your port forward from in front of your pfSense, not your ISP.

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          Alucardko
          last edited by

          @KOM:

          I was asking because you appear to have a double-NAT situation going on, and your problem may have more to do with your ISP not forwarding your traffic.  I wanted ot see if you could check your port forward from in front of your pfSense, not your ISP.

          More easy, if you have my situation, how you forward that ip to a subnet pfsense ip, my ISP ois good, in this moment I have 2 machines directly to the isp with reserveds ip (17.2 and 17.4) and the 2 IP publics are correctly forward to thats machines, then I need forward 17.3 to a machine in pfsense lan

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          • KOMK
            KOM
            last edited by

            Well, like I said earlier it's easy to port forward in pfSense and it just works.  If you can't get it working, post screenshots of your NAT port forward rules and WAN firewall rules.

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              Alucardko
              last edited by

              @KOM:

              Well, like I said earlier it's easy to port forward in pfSense and it just works.  If you can't get it working, post screenshots of your NAT port forward rules and WAN firewall rules.


              In firewall I dont have any configuration

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              • KOMK
                KOM
                last edited by

                OK I suspect the problem here is that you're trying to forward port 80 when you have pfSense WebGUI listening on that same port.  Are you running WebGUI in HTTP mode or HTTPS?  If I'm correct then there are two ways to fix this:

                • Use a Virtual IP with one of the IPs your ISP assigned you and then use that Virtual IP as the Destination Address in your firewall rule.

                • Change your WebGUI though the System options from port 80 to a different port, or switch to HTTPS mode.

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                  Alucardko
                  last edited by

                  @KOM:

                  OK I suspect the problem here is that you're trying to forward port 80 when you have pfSense WebGUI listening on that same port.  Are you running WebGUI in HTTP mode or HTTPS?  If I'm correct then there are two ways to fix this:

                  • Use a Virtual IP with one of the IPs your ISP assigned you and then use that Virtual IP as the Destination Address in your firewall rule.

                  • Change your WebGUI though the System options from port 80 to a different port, or switch to HTTPS mode.

                  This is my configuration

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                  • KOMK
                    KOM
                    last edited by

                    OK WebGUI is listening on port 80 so you can't forward that port directly from WAN.  You need to do one of my two suggestions.

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                    • A
                      Alucardko
                      last edited by

                      I dit this, but doesnt works, I think I need do another thing, but Im not sure

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                      • KOMK
                        KOM
                        last edited by

                        How exactly are you doing your testing to see if it works or not?

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                          Alucardko
                          last edited by

                          @KOM:

                          How exactly are you doing your testing to see if it works or not?

                          in the pc (7.10) I have a web page in IIS, when I connect that machine directly in subnet of the ISP with ip (192.168.17.3) then I test from another network, I put the public ip in a browser, and it works, but when i return to pfsense lan, and change the ip (7.10) I do the same process but doenst work

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                          • KOMK
                            KOM
                            last edited by

                            Here are two screens that show a port forward defined and WAN rules to allow the traffic.  Note that the aliases such as WWW, cloud point to private IP addresses, not public.

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                            • johnpozJ
                              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                              last edited by

                              "directly in subnet of the ISP with ip (192.168.17.3)"

                              Dude can you do a simple sniff on your pfsense wan… Then go to canyouseeme.org and test to port 80... Do you see the traffic to 80??

                              canyouseeme.jpg
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                                Alucardko
                                last edited by

                                @KOM:

                                Here are two screens that show a port forward defined and WAN rules to allow the traffic.  Note that the aliases such as WWW, cloud point to private IP addresses, not public.

                                WWW and cloud, are ip's in your Pfsense Lan ?

                                @johnpoz:

                                "directly in subnet of the ISP with ip (192.168.17.3)"

                                Dude can you do a simple sniff on your pfsense wan… Then go to canyouseeme.org and test to port 80... Do you see the traffic to 80??

                                this show me in that page, Error: I could not see your service on x.x.x.211 on port (80)
                                Reason: Connection timed out

                                But I discovered something, the public IP that shows me is correct, the one assigned to 192.168.17.3
                                Modify message

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                                • KOMK
                                  KOM
                                  last edited by

                                  WWW and cloud, are ip's in your Pfsense Lan ?

                                  It's a DMZ, but yes it's a LAN.

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                                  • johnpozJ
                                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                    last edited by

                                    "this show me in that page, Error: I could not see your service on x.x.x.211 on port (80)"

                                    Ok did you sniff on your wan while you were doing this???  Did you see the packets get to your wan?? Like I showed you in my pic??  If yes, then you have something wrong in pfsense configuration, or something on client behind pfsense.

                                    I you did not see these packets then there is nothng you can do in pfsense to make it work.. Pfsense can only forward traffic that gets to it.. If it doesn't get there then pfsense can not forward it..

                                    Also since your behind a NAT and using a rfc1918 address, that your isp is forwarding this traffic to a rfc1918 address you have on your wan.  You have to make sure you uncheck the block rfc1918 network rule on your wan interface.. Or no no matter how many forwards you setup it will not work because that rule would block that traffic since its inbound to your wan via dest rfc1918 address.

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                                      Alucardko
                                      last edited by

                                      I do a lot of configurations and doenst work, then after the lunch time, I test again and it works -.-,Does it take time to apply the settings? Now I do not know what the solution was

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                                      • KOMK
                                        KOM
                                        last edited by

                                        No idea what you have done but I am glad it's working for you now.

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                                          Alucardko
                                          last edited by

                                          @KOM:

                                          No idea what you have done but I am glad it's working for you now.

                                          I find whats  was wrong, I explain you, in my IPS subnet I have 2 gateways (one with 100mbps, and the other 3mbps) only the gateway with 3mbps has the public ip, then I put that gateway in the WAN configuration, but this dont work, I had to put the gateway in the routing section as default, then, can you explain me, the difference between put the gateway in the Wan configuration and in the routing section?

                                          PD: thanks for all you help

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                                          • KOMK
                                            KOM
                                            last edited by

                                            in my IPS subnet I have 2 gateways

                                            This would have been good to know right from the start.

                                            can you explain me, the difference between put the gateway in the Wan configuration and in the routing section?

                                            We don't know what you have done, but each WAN needs a default gateway.  You either pick one of the two, or create a gateway group with the two and weight them accordingly.

                                            https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-WAN

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