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    • G
      garner149
      last edited by

      Good afternoon,

      I have a vm running unifi controller behind my pfsense firewall. I have added the NAT rules for port forwarding like I had on my TP-link router before I replaced it with the pfsense firewall. It seems like I am missing something as my unifi controller can not talk to the cloud access part so i can remotely manage my APs. Any suggestions of what i'm missing?

      I have port forwarded:
      3478(UDP)
      8080, 8443, 8880, 8843, 6789, and 8883 all TCP

      Thanks for your time.

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
        last edited by

        What are you trying to do exactly? You do not need to port forward anything for cloud access to your UC

        https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012240067-UniFi-How-to-Enable-Cloud-Access-for-Remote-Management

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          garner149
          last edited by

          I'm trying to make it to where my controller at site A can reach the internet through cloud access so APs at Site B and C can talk back to Site As controller. This worked on my router before I swapped it out with pfsense. I want to use pfsense so I am trying to see what I am missing.

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
            last edited by johnpoz

            That is not cloud access that is L3 adoption..
            https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/204909754-UniFi-Device-Adoption-Methods-for-Remote-UniFi-Controllers

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              garner149
              last edited by

              But cloud access is required if you want to remotely manage your controller through unifi.ubnt.com

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              • johnpozJ
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                last edited by johnpoz

                Yes true but that has ZERO do with AP talking to your controller via L3 adoption.

                Once your controller at site A has adopted the AP at remote sites, then you could enable control cloud and remotely mange it.

                If you need to troubleshoot port forwarding
                https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/nat/port-forward-troubleshooting.html

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