UPnP Double NAT
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Here is my current network configuration
Orange router - eth0 (North public IP)
Orange router -eht1 (South 192.168.5.1)pfSense WAN -eth0 (north 192.168.5.22)
pfsense LAN -eth1 (south 192.168.0.3)
pfsense DMZ -eth2 (192.168.10.1)As you can see i'm double NATed and I have no choice about it. I'm trying to figure out if it's even remotely possible to have UPnP enabled so I can play games on my nintendo Switch or Steam.
I tried to look up my Public DNS address and insert that into WAN overide but I still am unable to lauch Fortnight for example on my Switch and Steam fails to connect.
If I plug my laptop on LAN I'm able to login and play on STEAM but i'm unsure what is the difference in the networks.
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@franky29 Have you made pfSense the exposed host (aka DMZ) of the orange router?
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@bob-dig There's an option in the Orange router that is called DMZ and i've setup the WAN IP of pfSense router 192.168.5.22 to be that one. The way I understand it is the Orange router will give it full access to the internet if I put it in that.
Probably relevant info I omitted in the description is I'm running OpenVPN PIA connection for everything leaving my network. But what is weird is my Steam connection works for LAN but not on wifi even if I included the same allow 1024-65535 192.168.10.10/32 1024-65535.
When I go on UPnP status page I can see my Plex Docker that's running on my NAS in the UPnP session page but not my Laptop with Steam which leads me to believe it's not using UPnP to connect to steam.
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@franky29 I don't think that steam is using UPnP in general.
And if you route everything through a VPN, UPnP won't work good either.
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@bob-dig Ok. Understood. So if I add an Outbound NAT manula rule that would have let's say the Nintendo Switch IP address to go through the normal GW and not use the VPN then that should technically use the UPnP right?
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@franky29 I can't tell but I would disable all vpn until you got this worked out.
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thanks for the feedback. I'll try both.
