What IF's to enable TFTP Proxy on ?

bingo600

I have a setup with 2 pfSense (latest vers) boxes connected via OpenVPN L2L (No NAT on L2L).

On central site i have anotherProvider supplied OpenVPN GW , going to a remote Phone PBX Site, connected to a PF Vlan.
On remote site i have a /28 Lan , where a few phones are connected.

The Phones needs access to a TFTP server on the remote PBX site , in order to load some config files , before connecting to the PBX and join.

Phones works fine right now , meaning TFTP works and so does routing.
But when I had enabled TFTP Proxy on all IF's except WAN on both boxes (desperate) , it wouldn't work. And i saw those TFTP @ (proxy) log entries on many interfaces. Prob. too much proxying.

I had to disable TFTP Proxy (well i couldn't disable it fully , but put it on a sleeping IF) , and then things started to work.

Right now i have permitted "any" from Remote PBX to the phone /28 , and same the other way.

If i was to narrow down the permissions and use TFTP Proxy.

Where does one enable the proxying ??

On the Phone (tftp initiator/ingress) IF ?
On the Final (pointing towards the TFTP server/egress) IF ?
On all IF's where the traffic is passed (tried that wo luck) ?

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA

/Bingo

stephenw10

You select the interfaces you want the proxy to listen on. Redirect rules are added on those interfaces to catch the initial tftp requests.
See: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tftp-proxy

Steve

bingo600

@stephenw10 said in What IF's to enable TFTP Proxy on ?:

You select the interfaces you want the proxy to listen on. Redirect rules are added on those interfaces to catch the initial tftp requests.
See: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tftp-proxy

Steve

But do i need to enable proxy on every interface the TFTP packets are passing , or only on the
Entry & Exit interfaces ??

TIA
/Bingo

stephenw10

You need to enable it on the entry interface of every firewall the initial request passes though passes through.

Steve

bingo600

@stephenw10 said in What IF's to enable TFTP Proxy on ?:

You need to enable it on the entry interface of every firewall the initial request passes though passes through.

Steve

Thank you Stephen
That clears it up :-)

/Bingo