Changing router IP - advice requested please
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I want to change my home network IP address scheme, mainly for VPN access reasons. When I change the pfsense router IP address, will I need to change all firewall/NAT/port-forward rules and settings, or will auto-generated rules auto-update to reflect the change? All my devices (except phones) have had static IP's, and I have changed them all to DHCP, with the pfsense router allocating the new (reserved) IP addresses. I plan to power down all devices before I change the router address, so they should pick up the new address when booted. Any other gotcha's?
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@steviewunda said in Changing router IP - advice requested please:
will I need to change all firewall/NAT/port-forward rules and settings
Well if you had say port X forwarded to 192.168.1.100, and now your network lan network is say 192.168.2/24 you would need to alter the forward to whatever 192.168.1.100 new IP is - say 192.168.2.100
If you had any hard coded firewall rules where you called out any specific IPs/networks be it source or destination those would have to be edited.
But the lan address, and lan network built in aliases would auto update to reflect your new lan ip and network.
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@johnpoz Thanks for confirming ;-)
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NP - let us know how it turns out after your all done.
Yeah the default 192.168.0 or .1 /24 networks that are so common can be problematic at times. I run 192.168.9/24 for my lan, and other 192.168.X networks for my other vlans. Saying away from the common 192.168.0 and .1
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Yep. address collisions are a "feature" of NAT. That's why I moved my network to 172.16.0.0 many years ago. In my work, I have only seen one other network there. All the more reason we should have moved to IPv6 years ago.
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Everything went well, except that SMB connections to my Unraid server are broken. I can ping it and access the web gui, but I can't see it in Windows Explorer. I remember this taking a bit of troubleshooting when I first set up the Unraid server, and it looks like the same scenario...thanks for your help guys ;-)
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@steviewunda said in Changing router IP - advice requested please:
but I can't see it in Windows Explorer.
you can not access it by name or IP
\\ipaddress or \\nas.domain.tldMost likely whatever your using for discovery could take a bit of time to refresh? But pfsense would have nothing to do with client on network X talking to another client/server on network X.
Do you have a firewall running on the unraid box that might need to be updated to allow your new network access to smb?
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