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    [Solved] I'm apparently unable to port forward...

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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
      last edited by johnpoz

      Seem you got ISP issues...

      Run your continue ping -- while I sniff... And show you that I am answering..

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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        here - I am answering you!!! IF you not getting it that is on your ISP..

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        • NinoM4sterN
          NinoM4ster
          last edited by NinoM4ster

          I'm gonna shutdown pfSense and switch to Mikrotik to try something..

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @NinoM4ster
            last edited by johnpoz

            @ninom4ster

            And your IP will change! Or you MAC will change - etc etc..

            What part do you NOT get about pfsense not seeing traffic it can not FORWARD?? Pfsense has no control of what hits is interface or not... Is pfsense a VM? Or hardware?

            Here is where trace stops
            inetnum: 177.126.96.0/20
            aut-num: AS16735
            abuse-c: CST87
            owner: ALGAR TELECOM S/A

            
            Tracing route to 187.73.x.x over a maximum of 30 hops
            
              1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.9.253
              2    12 ms     9 ms     8 ms  50.4.132.1
              3     9 ms     8 ms     9 ms  76.73.191.106
              4    10 ms    10 ms     9 ms  76.73.164.121
              5     9 ms    12 ms    17 ms  76.73.191.140
              6    11 ms    10 ms     9 ms  76.73.164.105
              7    11 ms    13 ms    20 ms  76.73.164.65
              8    16 ms    12 ms    12 ms  76.73.191.224
              9    12 ms    12 ms    12 ms  75.76.35.10
             10    34 ms    35 ms    33 ms  75.76.84.231
             11    31 ms    32 ms    31 ms  75.76.35.105
             12   179 ms   178 ms   190 ms  198.32.160.236
             13   178 ms   180 ms   181 ms  200.150.1.169
             14   193 ms   176 ms   178 ms  200.150.10.1
             15   177 ms   176 ms   177 ms  177.126.100.153
             16     *        *        *     Request timed out.
             17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
             18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
             19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
             20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
             21     *        *        *     Request timed out.
             22     *        *        *     Request timed out.
             23     *        *        *     Request timed out.
            

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            • NinoM4sterN
              NinoM4ster
              last edited by NinoM4ster

              it's hardware.

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                  • johnpozJ
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                    last edited by johnpoz

                    Dude don't worry about it - but Pfsense can not forward what it can not see!!! Period.. If pfsense is not seeing the traffic - then its hardware related or something upstream is blocking it.. Pfsense can not forward what it doesn't get, you can not see an answer to your ping if it doesn't get there..

                    Did you change it what is your IP now?

                    Is this your ISP?
                    ALGAR TELECOM S/A

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                    • DerelictD
                      Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                      last edited by Derelict

                      @ninom4ster said in I'm apparently unable to port forward...:

                      am like that.. I want things to FUCKING WORK.
                      I don't want to debug anything.

                      Nice.

                      If the traffic does not arrive on WAN there is nothing for the firewall to forward.

                      You are going to have to figure out what is going on upstream preventing that traffic from being sent to you. When you have debugged that, your port forward will work. Sorry that maintaining a network is sometimes work. Good luck with your ISP.

                      That packet capture is before rules, before snort, before everything. The connections from the outside are not arriving on WAN.

                      Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                      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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                      • NinoM4sterN
                        NinoM4ster @Derelict
                        last edited by

                        @johnpoz :

                        If the traffic does not arrive on WAN there is nothing for the firewall to forward.

                        @Derelict :

                        If it never gets to your wan then it can not forward it

                        Okay, okay... but I don't really understand how I can solve that...

                        I will soon grab an old notebook and do a clean install of Ubuntu Server with Apache on all the default settings, and also format my current pfSense box.... once again... just to see if the problem is my web server or not..

                        I don't know what else to try, honestly..

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                        • NinoM4sterN
                          NinoM4ster
                          last edited by

                          ah, I may also try the apparently less buggy version, 2.4.3...

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                          • DerelictD
                            Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                            last edited by

                            It is not a bug - at least not in pfSense. You need to figure out why your upstream/ISP is not forwarding the traffic to you. There is nothing pfSense can do with traffic it never receives.

                            Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                            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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                            • NinoM4sterN
                              NinoM4ster @Derelict
                              last edited by

                              But wait.. isn't the Packet Capture thing supposed to show something up when I "sniff" the WAN? I mean, it's a local procedure, right?
                              I got confused when you guys told me "it can't forward what it can't see" because I didn't know if you were talking about the WAN or the LAN.

                              Also, wasn't pfSense supposed to work out-of-the-box? =/
                              I'm almost sure that it was working perfectly when I first set it up weeks ago.. even port forwarding..

                              As I already mentioned, it couldn't be my ISP. Port Forwarding works perfectly on my Mikrotik router (when I swap Pf with it).

                              What's the chance of it being a hardware problem? I'm still not running a Intel NIC since they're unbelievable expensive here where I live..

                              WAN is the onboard NIC on this MB (apparently Realtek), and LAN is a... (also apparently) Realtek generic gigabit NIC.

                              Cheers.

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                              • DerelictD
                                Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                                last edited by Derelict

                                Are you saying you weren't packet capturing on WAN?

                                If so, do so, and report what you see there. Here's the deal. You are expecting connections from the internet to your WAN address on TCP port 8889. If you packet capture for that traffic ON WAN, test an inbound connection, and the packet capture DOES NOT INCLUDE THAT TRAFFIC then there's nothing pfSense can do. You need to get with your ISP and ask them why they do not forward the traffic to this device but do to that device. It's as simple as that.

                                If you DO see the traffic then we can work with that.

                                pfSense does work out of the box for a great many people.

                                And Realtek NICs are generally considered about as crappy as you can get, but they generally work in most cases.

                                If Intel is too expensive Broadcom is leaps and bounds better than Realtek.

                                Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                                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
                                  last edited by johnpoz

                                  The picture he posted was on his WAN.. There was nothing there to port 8889..

                                  You want to meet the train engineer - hard to meet him if the train never pulls into the station.. So how could pfsense forward traffic to a device on your lan, if it never sees it on the wan.. This isn't freaking rocket science here ;)

                                  You say it works on your old router.. Well that router going to be a different IP, its going to be a different MAC address of the device connected to the isp. Your isp could be filtering on unknown mac? What is the device your connecting pfsense too exactly what is the make and model number? When you connect pfsense to this device - you actually see the public IP on pfsense wan? 187.73.x.x ?? Or do you see some other IP like 192.168.x.x, 10.x.x.x or 172.16-31.x.x ??

                                  If you do not get the public IP yuo say is yours on the the wan interface of pfsense - then it is behind a NAT. And the device doing that nat has to be told to send the specific traffic to pfsense WAN ip.. or no pfsense will never see the traffic to be able to forward to your 192.168 box on your lan.

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                                  If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                                  Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
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                                  • NinoM4sterN
                                    NinoM4ster
                                    last edited by

                                    I understand enough about NAT. It is indeed exposed externally, since the WAN does get an external address. I know what I'm doing.

                                    I just noticed that I got something wrong when I tried using the Packet Capture.. I was really tired and for some reason I thought it generated traffic itself, somehow.. (don't blame me, it was 3 in the morning..) so that's probably why it was blank..

                                    I might try again another day.. Unfortunately I can't simply shutdown everything (to swap the devices) since my dad uses the Internet constantly for wotk..

                                    Cheers.

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                                    • johnpozJ
                                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                      last edited by

                                      So what is your public IP now - PM it to me.. And validate that it answers ping.. And if the port forward works, etc.

                                      Cuz the IP you sent me still is not answering ping.. So whats the IP when you use this other router..

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                                      • NinoM4sterN
                                        NinoM4ster
                                        last edited by

                                        Sent.

                                        And btw, my ISP shouldn't block unknown Mac, or else I wouldn't have internet access at all. not even outgoing.

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                                        • johnpozJ
                                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                          last edited by johnpoz

                                          Doesn't always work that way.. Many an isp allows mac address for some access until its registered, etc. Is quite possible for you to have 1 sort of access with known mac, and then limited sort of access when you have another mac until it gets registered, etc.

                                          Your IPs are in completely different net blocks.. So its possible traffic inbound works on netblock A, but not when using netblock B..

                                          BTW your new IP doesn't ping either.. But I do show 8889 being open.

                                          How come you could not ping my IP? Can you ping my IP now? I showed you when you pinged me before I that I sent a reply.. But you didn't get it, etc. Its possible maybe they have issues on the netblock you get when you install pfsense. Simple test of that would be to clone the mac address of your router so that pfsense uses the same mac on its wan.. This way you "should" get the exact same address as this router for your wan.

                                          An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                                          If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                                          Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
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                                            Why are most of the posts deleted in this topic? I was looking forward to following the story.

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