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    Port Forward Rules Appear to Not work

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    • T Offline
      teshiburu
      last edited by

      I have got IIS running on a Windows 2012 R2 machine at 192.168.1.221.
      Windows firewall is off, and I have created the following rule in pfsense on the WAN tab

      I also have these LAN rules

      For some reason, I cannot even get to the IIS landing page?

      I've looked at the firewall logs and can see lots of entries like this

      the first IP is as expected (the external IP for my office) and the "destination IP" is that provided by my ISP, it seems that the traffic isn't being routed to the web server?

      Any ideas?

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        teshiburu
        last edited by

        OK.

        So it would seem i managed to get this working - i had to add a NAT port forwarding rule to deal with the web server.

        I have another service running on a port but on the same IP so it will be 82.11.XXX.XXX:943

        How do i go about forwarding this one?

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          KOM
          last edited by

          That's how a port-forward works.  First you define the connection via NAT - Port Forward, then you add a firewall rule to allow the traffic to flow.

          How do i go about forwarding this one?

          Exactly the same way you did the first one, just replace 80 with 943.

          https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/How_can_I_forward_ports_with_pfSense

          https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Port_Forward_Troubleshooting

          https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Firewall_Rule_Troubleshooting

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            teshiburu
            last edited by

            @KOM:

            That's how a port-forward works.  First you define the connection via NAT - Port Forward, then you add a firewall rule to allow the traffic to flow.

            How do i go about forwarding this one?

            Exactly the same way you did the first one, just replace 80 with 943.

            https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/How_can_I_forward_ports_with_pfSense

            https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Port_Forward_Troubleshooting

            https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Firewall_Rule_Troubleshooting

            KOM, thanks for the help so far.

            I have configured the NAT and Firewall rules as per the guides (and the webserver i managed to get done fine)

            However, the new rules i have created (for openvpn-as) dont show as ports being open when i test with a port scanner, and openvpn-as cant even test successfully itsself

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            • KOMK Online
              KOM
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              Please show the firewall rule for your OpenVPN forward.

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