Dual Wan (Static) Dual Lan Issues (No Net Connection)
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I am evaluating pfsense as an option to add a little redundancy to our current connection by using dual ADSL connections. For the most part i have got everything up and running as i wished, except one major problem.
My setup is a 4 port system, Dual Wan on wan and opt2, then lan on opt1 and wlan on opt2. In my testing phase i had the broadband routers doing NAT between pfsense and the net, with pfsense getting it's ip's through DHCP, this worked fine, but required lots of port forwarding and hoop jumping to get PPTP e.t.c to work correctly. So i have attempted to put the routers into bridge mode and assign the ip/gateway addresses given to me by the isp's to the dual wan interfaces in pfsense, but it does not work.
As a test i also attempted manually setting the same ip settings that where assigned by dhcp and setting the routers back into NAT, but again still no net access.
The way i am setting things up is by setting each interface to static, assigning it a fixed ip (192.168.0.100/24 and 192.168.1.100/24) outside of the dhcp range, and then creating an assigning each interface to a gateway (192.168.0.168, 192.168.0.254). Then i have created basic firewall rules that route anything but http traffic on the pfsense ip to the respective gateways, lan to one and wlan to the other. With this i get not net connection, weirdly when i look at the gateways under status they both show as up, so i am wondering if it is a firewall/routing issue, but as this is just in the testing phases at the moment, the only rules i have are at the lowest end, pass all to default gateway, then on top, pass all not destined for the pfsense web interface to a specified gateway.
Any help greatly appreciated as i am out of ideas!!
Cheers
Gareth
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Can you clarify a couple things? You said you have wireless and WAN2 on opt2?
Also, what were the IP addresses of the DSL routers supposed to be? -
Hi Blak, thanks for responding.
Ok, i have four network interfaces on the system. They are as follows,
Wan1 = Wan - Static IP 93.96.**4.61 , Subnet 24, Gateway 93.96.**4.1
Wan2 = Opt2 - Static IP 81.**9.200.133, Subnet 24, Gateway 81.**9.200.1
lan = Opt1 - Static IP 192.168.10.254, Subnet 24, DHCP enabled, Scope of 192.168.10.10 - 192.168.10.200
Wireless = Lan - Static IP 192.168.20.254, Subnet 24, DHCP enabled, Scope of 192.168.20.10 - 192.168.20.200I am using opendns servers, so those are set in the basic setup and DNS forwarding is enabled.
Does that help? Do you need any more information?
Cheers
Gareth
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So with the interfaces having those public addresses, you are in bridged mode on the modems then, right?
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Yes, both modems in bridged mode. If i bypass Pfsense and connect the modem directly to my server, setting the same IP and gateway information then i get a connection fine. Which is why i am a little stumped!!
Cheers
Gareth
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Try adding a static route for opendns. A picture can be found here http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,12464.msg67635.html#msg67635
Else i would start from a fresh install with only 1 wan and 1 lan -
To make sure it's a DNS problem, see if you can ping something based on just it's IP.
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Hmm, no it appears i cannot ping anything outside the LAN, including the gateway IP's, so i guess it isn't a DNS issue. I will however backup my setup and start again with only one WAN, though in all fairness it also doesn't work when i route the internet access rule to a specific gateway rather than to the dual wan gateway group, so i am not sure that's going to help.
Cheers
Gareth