Cell phone not getting through pfSense firewall
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I have a Syslink wifi router that I can connect to (wifi) with my cell phone. When I have the router between my computer and pfSense, my computer can get through, my cell phone shows a successful connection to the router, but the phone gets stuck trying to connect to the internet. The Android and Ghostery browsers will not connect. If I bypass (wire around) the pfSense controller, the phone will connect. I have tried to '6) Halt system' to see if the phone/Syslink might get through to no avail. On 2 rare occasions, the phone did get through the firewall. Any ideas on how to find what is causing the blockage or how to tell the firewall to allow/pass the phone?
Thanks
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What interface on your Syslink connects to pfSense, it's not the WAN interface is it ?
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The pdSense controller is connected to the Syslink router via a crossover cable to the 'Internet' input. I guess that is the WAN interface. I am not real familiar with networking. The computer is connected to one of the 4 other inputs.
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Your doing a double NAT by the sounds of things.
So you'll be nating on the pfsense router from a public IP address then a nat again on the Syslink router.
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We have way too many knats pestering us here in Texas, but now I have another one. Can you suggest how I might be able to insert a router in between my computer and the pfSense controller? Possibly I could put the router first, the WAN input connected to the ISP cable coming in and then run a LAN cable to the controller and run the output of the controller to the computer. Wonder if that makes since.
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Disable DHCP on the Syslink and give it a fixed IP address from the pfSense LAN subnet or let it get an IP via DHCP.
Remove the cable from the Syslink WAN / Internet port and connect it to a Syslink LAN port, if it doesn't work you'll need a normal network cable.
Your PfSense LAN and Wi-Fi should now be on the same network and no double NAT.
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Thanks. I can figure that out.
