My pfsense LAN clients cannot ping the wan inteface
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hello first time interacting with firewalls, so i wanted to use pfsense in vmware, and putting it in gns3 i been trying to set up pfsense firewall for the first time, i used R2 to simulate a WAN,and i added an ftp server(also vmware win7) , who i wanted to access from the win7 vm, and then block the access using the firewall,but LAN (win7) and WAN (e0 firewall) wont ping
So i want to know what to do to make it work
i am utterly new to pfsense
and also new to Firewalls and how they function
so for starters i would like to access the FTP server from the WIN7
and how can i block it from accessing it
knowing that the ftp server can ping firewall(parefeu) E1 but not any lan client
but win7 cant even ping e0
i have deactivated hardware checksum
thank you all
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You should be able to ping the pfSense WAN interface at 70.70.70.2 from the Win7 VM in the LAN with only the default rules.
The only reason you might not be is if the VM has no default route or a bad default route. Or something in the hypervisor is blocking it.You will not be able to ping from the server to anything on the LAN without firewall rules to pass it and a route to reach that subnet.
Steve
