Cannot connect/ping from internal to pfSense and vice versa

icq9988

I took the approach with Cisco 3750 doing the routing, removed all VLAN from pfSense, but still have to add a gateway with lan port on pfsense, and add static route on this gateway. lan port ip is 10.30.54.1, Onr cisco 3750, VLAN 100 SVI has IP 10.30.54.254.

After that, I found the vlan with the same subnet(10.30.54.0/24) on pfSense lan port work fine. I can go internet and everything looks alright. I have removed "ip default-gateway", and has "ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.30.54.1".
However, for other vlans, they still not working. From Cisco 3750, if I do this "ping 10.30.54.1 source 10.30.60.254" (10.30.60.254.is vlan 1000's SVI ip address on Cisco 3750), it will failed to ping. That is why other vlans cannot go internet. I guess that's because the 3750 is not a true L3 device and cannot assign IP address on physical port so make it hard to routing as we expected.

SO for now I just removed all other vlans and make it work for the purpose. As my pfsense hardware is too old(maybe more than 10 years), I will go ahead to get a new hardware, and install with newest pfsense, and implement as making Cisco 3750 pure L2 device and trunking to pfsense, to let pdSense do L3 routing and traffic control, As johnpoz suggested.

Again thanks a lot for your helps!!!

johnpoz

Your hardware age is not an issue... Routing is routing..

icq9988

@johnpoz I'm not 100% sure why routing not working at this case.
I did check "show ip route" and the default route marked as "*s" which told me it's has been put in routing table. But for this switch still not working.
Interesting thing is, if I do ping test from pfSense, I can ping anywhere inside, even other VLANs.

The hardwre age is about the pfSense upgrade thing, I have not been able to upgrade since ver 2.4.3_1.

johnpoz

If you can ping the downstream devices. But you can not ping pfsense from the devices. What are the rules on your transit interface (lan?)

by default source of lan net would be only source, so no downstream networks would not be able to ping pfsense, or go to the internet..

I clearly went over all of that..

As to your version of pfsense - again.. Doesn't matter this so basic... You could be running pfsense version 1 and it would work..

icq9988

@johnpoz for pfSense version, I just want to be up to date. Sorry about the confusion, that is another thing unrelated to routing stuff.

Last night when I tested. if I PING anywhere from Cisco 3750, it works, because by default Cisco 3750 uses 10.30.54.254 as the source. However, if I added source ip(from other vlan) with ping. It will fail. Basically, I did that ping test with source IP because I found only 10.30.54.0(which has the same subnet with pfsense LAN 10.30.54.1) can go internet.

johnpoz

@icq9988 said in Cannot connect/ping from internal to pfSense and vice versa:

I found only 10.30.54.0(which has the same subnet with pfsense LAN 10.30.54.1) can go internet.

And again what are the rules on this interface in pfsense? Out of the box no other networks would not have access..

Yes it pretty vital to keep your firewall current version for many many reasons. But something as simple basic connectivity is not one of them..

icq9988

@johnpoz since I removed all VLANs from pfSense, only rule I added is to allow any from LAN_net to any.

johnpoz

@icq9988 said in Cannot connect/ping from internal to pfSense and vice versa:

from LAN_net to any.

And are these downstream networks in lan net? No they have different IP range.. So no they are not going to work..

I refer to my previous post where I went over all of this. And even gave you a picture that includes all the pertinent details needed

https://forum.netgate.com/post/998526

icq9988

@johnpoz Sorry I missed that details. I will stop by tonight to install another Cisco Aeronet WAP, will try for that.

Again appreciate for your help on this :)

marvosa

@icq9988 Yes, you will need an any/any (or defined alias/any) on the LAN interface assuming that's where 10.30.54.1 is addressed.

If the other VLANs still aren't communicating once you've added the firewall rule(s) to the LAN, post the running-config, "sh ip route" from the switch, and the routing table from PFsense.