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My service provider has assigned a WAN IP address from private address space and for LAN a pool of /28 IP addresses. We choose to terminate the link on a pfsense and everything works fine except pfsense itself is not able to reach Internet.
Its possibly because outbound connections from pfsense are being made using the WAN IP since it has the default route there.
Is there any way to tell pfsense to use the LAN IP whenever it makes connections outside? I am struct with package manager showing this message "Unable to retrieve package information".
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@inukollu
You can use any address you have assigned to pfSense interfaces for outbound connection.However, I don't see why its not possibly to go out with the default WAN IP, even if it's private. Seems something on the ISP site.
To change the outbound source address you have to configure a rule in Firewall > NAT > Outbound.
I guess, you might have already have switched it to the hybrid or manual mode and added rules for the LAN network to get the outbound work.
So also add a rule for the source 127.0.0.0/8 to WAN interface and set any of your public IPs for translation. -
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