All devices have internet access/pfSense not capturing device traffic and FW rules not effecting devices
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AT&T modem/router in ip passthrough. Have its public ip going into pfSense WAN (107.140.#.#).
Tp-Link wireless router on LAN side with address of 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.0/24)
pfSense interfaces:
WAN: v4/DHCP4: 107.140.#.#/22
LAN: v4: 192.168.1.1/24So no devices (wired or wireless) traffic on the LAN is being captured during packet captures and FW rules don't effect them either. Any help would be appreciated.
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@4estfire said in All devices have internet access/pfSense not capturing device traffic and FW rules not effecting devices:
Any help would be appreciated
Bad start.
Right now, the only possible answer is : your LAN rules are wrong.
And when you talk about packer capturing : the one we can find under Diagnostics => Packet Capture ?
That one works of course.
We don't know how you used it. Pretty sure the wrong way.Your tp-link wireless router has NAT/router mode enabled ? Why ?
@4estfire said in All devices have internet access/pfSense not capturing device traffic and FW rules not effecting devices:
WAN: v4/DHCP4: 107.140.#.#/22
Are you sure about the /22 ?
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The only way you would not see that in a pcap is if somehow the traffic is not going through pfSense.
So maybe your clients are not connected to the correct AP for example.
Steve
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@4estfire said in All devices have internet access/pfSense not capturing device traffic and FW rules not effecting devices:
So no devices (wired or wireless) traffic on the LAN is being captured during packet captures and FW rules don't effect them either.
Where is that traffic going to/from? If only on the LAN, then pfSense has nothing to do with it. It only affects traffic between the LAN and Internet.
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Why is your wireless AP on 192.168.0.1/24 and your LAN on pfSense is 192.168.1.1/24?
How are you routing between these two subsets?
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@tim-mcmanus Thinking you are the closest to ID'ing my issue I think. I'm of course learning, and my training scenarios have not been anything like my home setup. My pfSense LAN IP is like you said .1.1 and the AP/router everything connects to is .0.1/24. Should they be the same? Who is or should be handing out the IPs? I appreciate you patience boss.
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I am going to assume you're not a networking expert. :)
I also assume your network looks something like this:
[ISP Gear]----[pfSense]---[Wireless AP]
Or
WAN--Router--LAN
If the LAN address of your pfSense NIC is 192.168.0.0/24, then all devices on your LAN must have IP addresses within that same range of 192.168.0.0/24. If you have a device that has the IP address 192.168.1.0/24, that is on a separate subnet. It would not be able to communicate with your LAN.
I think that might be your root cause here. Since your AP is on a different subnet than pfSense's LAN, none of the traffic will reach pfSense. You need to change the AP address to a LAN address in order for data to be passed.
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You are using a wireless router as an access point so this should still work if it is still routing (and NATing).
But it would be much better to configure it as an access point only and put everything in the same subnet.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/wireless/use-an-existing-wireless-router-with-pfsense.html
Steve
