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      anogmus
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I have several Public IP addresses that I assigned to WAN.
      if I do 1:1 on WAN interface to specific host 10.5.1.10 on my LAN it does the trick and my public IP this PC does change to the one I want it to be. But only this specific machine gets this public IP address translated.

      Logically i would assume another rule needs be create 1:1 translate network 10.5.1.1/24 to the selected public ip. In this case I lose connection to internet.

      I kind of ran out of ideas!

      How can I make whole LAN to be on selected public IP address instead of been on routers IP?

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        viragomann
        last edited by

        Go to interfaces bridge tab and add a bridge and select LAN and WAN.

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          mikeisfly
          last edited by

          I would setup gateways and then in your rules tell your lan to use what ever gateway you want. Make sure that you order them right so your one computer will use one public but the rest of the network will you the other public. You may have to sub interface your wan port and put your public IPs all on your router too.

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            cmb
            last edited by

            You'll need to configure manual outbound NAT accordingly, Firewall>NAT, Outbound tab.
            https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Outbound_NAT
            and in greater detail in the 2.1 book available to gold subscribers @ portal.pfsense.org

            @viragomann:

            Go to interfaces bridge tab and add a bridge and select LAN and WAN.

            Don't do that, that's not going to help anything and you don't want your LAN on the same broadcast domain as WAN unless you have a very specific requirement for that, which you don't seem to.

            @mikeisfly:

            I would setup gateways and then in your rules tell your lan to use what ever gateway you want.

            Gateways in a single WAN scenario have no relevance to how traffic is NATed.

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              anogmus
              last edited by

              Thank you sir you clearly know what are you talking about!

              @cmb:

              You'll need to configure manual outbound NAT accordingly, Firewall>NAT, Outbound tab.
              https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Outbound_NAT
              and in greater detail in the 2.1 book available to gold subscribers @ portal.pfsense.org

              @viragomann:

              Go to interfaces bridge tab and add a bridge and select LAN and WAN.

              Don't do that, that's not going to help anything and you don't want your LAN on the same broadcast domain as WAN unless you have a very specific requirement for that, which you don't seem to.

              @mikeisfly:

              I would setup gateways and then in your rules tell your lan to use what ever gateway you want.

              Gateways in a single WAN scenario have no relevance to how traffic is NATed.

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                cmb
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                @anogmus:

                Thank you sir you clearly know what are you talking about!

                One might say I wrote the book on it. In fact, I did.  ;D

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