IPsec not pinging machines on remote side which is running pfsense
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Hi!
I just setup an IPsec tunnel (PFsense at the office) which is now successfully connected with my Meraki MX64 at home. I'm successfully connected, but I can't ping or access anything on the PFsense side where I have internal network servers, etc. Any ideas?
My office networks (with PFsense) are:
192.168.128.0/24
192.168.133.0/24
192.168.134.0/24my HOME network is
192.168.129.0/24Am I supposed to configured the 192.168.129.0/24 on pfsense somewhere? I'm thinking maybe that's my issue as it's not routing?
Thanks
Ryan
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Keep in mind that in case your pinged devices are Winblows machines that ICMP protocol (Ping) is fully blocked there by default in the local firewall.
You explicitly need to allow ICMP traffic there in the setup ! (local and remote IP Ranges to "any" or your specific source lan addresses)
Also the Winblows firewall generally blocks all traffic which has different source IPs then the local network they are in. Keep that in mind if you need access to file sharing or printer service etc.
So best practice is always to ping the local router interfaces or destination IPs from devices without firewall like printers, wlan ap's etc. from the Diagnostics --> Ping menü. This also makes sense cause you can alter the source IPs to your local LANs here.