Netgate Discussion Forum
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Search
    • Register
    • Login

    Trying to access my Comcast modem via the LAN

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General pfSense Questions
    49 Posts 8 Posters 7.7k Views
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • chpalmerC
      chpalmer @JKnott
      last edited by

      @JKnott said in Trying to access my Comcast modem via the LAN:

      @chpalmer said in Trying to access my Comcast modem via the LAN:

      The modem doubles as the local router for Comcast's purposes.

      Other companies do similar, by "Comcast's purposes", do you mean public "Xfinity" WiFi?

      No not the public WIFI crap. Speaking of crap we usually call them Comcrap due to "crap" like this.

      By their purposes I mean in order to provide the static IP's they use a local router. (probably not the best use of "their purposes" but I digress.. The Modem/Router combination truly does the routing on site. If the OP was to show his "quality" logs you would see the ping is very small to the gateway router because that is indeed in the modem in this situation.

      Triggering snowflakes one by one..
      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Back on subject just create a vip

        On your wan create a vip, lets call it 10.1.10.2, then create an outbound nat to that vip... There you go access.

        An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
        If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
        Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
        SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • B
          bazzacad
          last edited by

          Thanks for all the help everyone. Sorry this became a longer topic then I expected. I'll try the VIP option this evening...

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • B
            bazzacad
            last edited by

            So I want the VIP to be the destination for the outbound NAT?

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • johnpozJ
              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
              last edited by johnpoz

              No the vip would be the interface for the nat, dest would be the IP your trying to get to or just the network.. One sec show you a pic.. I don't need it to access my modem.. But I can set one up real quick to show you. My modem which is bridged can still be access via is 192.168.100.1 address..

              So create vip on wan say 192.168.100.2 - one sec brb.

              here you go. Notice how I selected the vip as the translation in the outbound. You only need to use hybrid not manual.. So now anything coming from 192.168.9.0/24 network going to a 192.168.100.0/24 network will go out the wan using that IP..

              vip.png

              And there you go access
              modemaccess.png

              An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
              If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
              Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
              SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • B
                bazzacad
                last edited by

                Thanks for the screen shots. They're very helpful.
                So I'm thinking this is what I'll try. Does it look correct...?
                Also, my NAT mode is already set to Manual. Needed it for some PBX rules.

                3e04464b-cf59-4cb5-85c4-e247f7469db2-image.png

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Yeah that looks right.

                  An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                  If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                  Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                  SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                  • B
                    bazzacad
                    last edited by

                    I added the VIP & NAP, but no luck. :-(
                    I can ping the VIP & modem from the LAN.
                    0d11ce55-5e3a-4d78-b016-1ff697db5809-image.png
                    2885c82c-575c-42a7-aefa-ca1029f78803-image.png
                    279cd2a6-a488-4324-baa8-f9f61b041492-image.png

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                      last edited by johnpoz

                      Well you got something back.. Or you wouldn't have gotten that page.. So you got a syn,ack I would assume.. So your vip is working.

                      Sniff on the wan when you try and open the page.. do you see the syn,ack come back from your syn.. If so pfsense is doing what you told it to do.

                      Why did you do a /32? Set that to /24

                      An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                      If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                      Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                      SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • B
                        bazzacad
                        last edited by

                        OK I fixed the /32 thx.
                        By Sniff do you mean WireShark?
                        Or can I do it in pfSense?

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          You can do it within pfSense:
                          https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/monitoring/performing-a-packet-capture.html

                          Steve

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • First post
                            Last post
                          Copyright 2025 Rubicon Communications LLC (Netgate). All rights reserved.