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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved NAT
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      hotshottech
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      I can ping the radio from the Pfsense ping Gui and I can do a trace route to all the radios from pfsense but I can't ping from my PC. All the radios are listed in the ARP Table.

      My VIP is 192.168.1.21/24

      I think the problem is in my firewal/nat/outbound rule…see attached.

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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        That looks fine.. My guess since you have multiple wans, that your lan rules are doing policy routing and shoving you out a gateway other than where your trying to get to.

        Post up your lan rules.

        There has to be a rule that allows your traffic to use your normal routing before you get sent down some gateway

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          hotshottech
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          See attached….My Computers alias is the PC that I am using to try to access the Radios.

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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            So dude that rule my computers is forcing traffic out your wan gateway.. That is your public connection, so no it would not be able to use your vip..

            You need a rule above that for my computers that allows it to go to your 192.168 network your PtP stuff.  That rules says hey anything in my computer no matter where its going shove it down the wan2axiaGW..

            Rules are top down, first rule to fire wins, no other rules are evaluated..

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            • DerelictD
              Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
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              Sounds like a perfect use case for a management VLAN for those radios. That's what I would probably do (if they support it.)

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                hotshottech
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                They do support clan, I am using ubiquiti power beam m5.

                Could you outline on how to setup a vlan in pfsense to the radios?

                Thanks

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                • DerelictD
                  Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                  last edited by

                  Depends on what they support. Is the normal traffic tagged or untagged. Is that management VLAN tagged or untagged? What is a clan?

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                  • johnpozJ
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                    I think he meant vlan ;) not sure he would be talking about a collapsed lan ;)

                    So did you get it working once you fixed your rules?

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                      hotshottech
                      last edited by

                      I need to set a gateway out to the 192.168.1.x/24 but not sure how to get that done…

                      Please explain...thanks

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                        Why do you need a gateway?  Once you create a vip in the network the p2p address are on, and you nat to that vip.

                        You said you can ping the p2p IPs from pfsense.  So your vip is working, you create the nat so when your clients go there pfsense nats it to its vip.  Your p2p clients think your talking to them from an IP on their network.

                        Problem I saw as that your lan rules were not going to allow your clients to use the vip, since forcing it down the the gateway.  Just put a rule above that that allows access to that p2p network.

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                          hotshottech
                          last edited by

                          Not sure if this is correct. I tried this and it doesn't work…. see attached

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                          • johnpozJ
                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                            and is that rule at the top?

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                              hotshottech
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                              Yes see attached….

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                              • johnpozJ
                                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                                Why is the gear showing on that rule?  That means you messed with the advanced setion of the rules.  So see hits to it..  So sniff on your wan when you try and connect do you see your traffic going out?

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                                • DerelictD
                                  Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                                  last edited by

                                  Yeah. Mouse over that gear on the bypass policy routing rule. Why is that there?

                                  What are your current outbound NAT rules?

                                  Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                                  A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
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                                    hotshottech
                                    last edited by

                                    The gear was there because I had a In and Out Limit…I have removed that...see attached

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                                      hotshottech
                                      last edited by

                                      I got it going…..here are the rules that got me there.

                                      Thanks guys for all the help....see attached

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                                        hotshottech
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                                        And I also had to add a VIP on the 192.168.1.x/24 network.

                                        Hope this helps somebody else.

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                                        • DerelictD
                                          Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                                          last edited by

                                          Yeah. johnpoz said that in #3.

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                                          A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                                          DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                                          Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                                          • johnpozJ
                                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                                            Actually Derelict.. Lets see stated multiple times to create a vip in reply #1, then again in #3 and then #5 and then #7 and then #14…. that was just on the first page ;)

                                            And then reported on this page 3 of the thread that he has his mask wrong on his vip.. he had a /32, etc..

                                            Got to love how a 15 second thing to do runs into days and days ;)  Really all that was need to do was given in my reply #1

                                            If he wasn't forcing traffic out a gateway this would of been working days ago..

                                            edit: 3 pages of trying to help this guy, not 1 thank you.. And then from his last post he makes it like we never told him to create a vip hehehe  Got to love it...

                                            Why would you create ind rules like that?  Why would you not just use an alias or /cidr dest?

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