<![CDATA[Port Fowarding, but only from specific external IPs?]]>Have just setup pfSense at home for the first time and have it working nicely.

I can get plain old port forwarding working no issue.
But I would like to lock it down further, by only allowing known external IPs - workplace IP's.

I trawled the net for hours trying to find a guide on this question, this should be easy but I just cant get it to work unless I allow any external IP in.

I have a simple network and requirements:

  • pfSense 192.168.0.1
  • Internal Server to port forward to 192.168.0.2
  • Ports 50001 & 50002
  • Only allow external IPs e.g. 10.20.50.60 & 10.20.51.60

Would appreciate any direction?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/136167/port-fowarding-but-only-from-specific-external-ipsRSS for NodeWed, 15 Jul 2026 20:27:21 GMTSun, 30 Sep 2018 09:58:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Port Fowarding, but only from specific external IPs? on Tue, 02 Oct 2018 02:01:48 GMT]]>Yes, you can set a source IP (or an alias containing several IPs) in either the port forward directly or in the firewall rule filtering traffic forwarded by it.

Steve

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