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    Can't get LAN to talk to DMZ

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    • KOMK
      KOM
      last edited by

      You did alter the default LAN rule to set a specific gateway.  Having multiple gateways is the kind of stuff that's important to know beforehand when troubleshooting.  Why do you have multiple gateways?  Can you hack up a quickie network diagram?  This smells like an asymmetrical routing problem.

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        B3Technology
        last edited by

        Oops. You are correct. We did add the gateway because we needed Internet fail-over using gateway groups.

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        • KOMK
          KOM
          last edited by

          Where exactly is pfSense in the mix?  You appear to have a firewall and two routers between all the networks.  What's what?  What happens if yo change your default LAN rule to not specify a gateway and just let it use its default?

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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            LAN: allow any any gateway

            If your pointing to a specific gateway, you have to make sure rules are above the rule that sends you down a gateway that allows access you want.

            So if you have lan any any going down a gateway, and you want lan to be able to get to dmz then above the rule that sends it to the gateway put a rule with dest dmz that doesn't set a gateway.

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              B3Technology
              last edited by

              @KOM:

              Where exactly is pfSense in the mix?  You appear to have a firewall and two routers between all the networks.  What's what?  What happens if yo change your default LAN rule to not specify a gateway and just let it use its default?

              Thank you for taking the time to look at this.

              The pfSense is the firewall icon. The icons between the pfSense and the Internet cloud are the modems.

              I have tried this without the default gateway set and still it does not work.

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                B3Technology
                last edited by

                @johnpoz:

                LAN: allow any any gateway

                If your pointing to a specific gateway, you have to make sure rules are above the rule that sends you down a gateway that allows access you want.

                So if you have lan any any going down a gateway, and you want lan to be able to get to dmz then above the rule that sends it to the gateway put a rule with dest dmz that doesn't set a gateway.

                Could I be specifying the rule incorrectly. I do have a rule (without a GW) above the global rule.

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                • KOMK
                  KOM
                  last edited by

                  I don't think you should be specifying a gateway since that LAN-DMZ traffic won't be going out either of them ever.  I asked this once already without reply: What kind of boxes are in the DMZ that fail to respond to ping?  Are they Windows boxes?

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                    B3Technology
                    last edited by

                    To all who have helped.

                    I just upgraded my system from 2.3.2 to 2.3.2_1 and now it seems to be working. Must have been a bug.

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                    • KOMK
                      KOM
                      last edited by

                      Gah!  I hate those!!

                      Glad you got it working.

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                        "Must have been a bug."

                        Rolleyes!!!  Yeah must of been… The 10's of 1000 of installs that were running 2.3.2 and prob still 1000's like you that for some reason didn't update to on install? are has a bug that doesn't allow traffic flow between segments..

                        From this post I would say its working.. You have active states and traffic..

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                        • KOMK
                          KOM
                          last edited by

                          Well, in my experience here I have seen many, many cases where something that should work doesn't work no matter what you do… until you upgrade, reboot or reinstall (if it's a package.)

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