<![CDATA[Bridged LAN Ports - LAN Clients cannot talk to each other]]>I'm not sure what is going on and I am hoping someone else does. I have a Netgate 4100. I have bridged the LAN1-4 together to make it a switch. I have added a firewall rule to allow everything. The LAN clients cannot talk to each other. If I plug everyone into a separate switch, it works great. If I connect them all to wireless, it works. If I put them into LAN1, and LAN2 it does not work.

They are all on the same vlan (default). They all get IPs but they cannot talk to each other if they are plugged into different ports on the Netgate.

Any ideas?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/176437/bridged-lan-ports-lan-clients-cannot-talk-to-each-otherRSS for NodeWed, 15 Apr 2026 07:54:09 GMTTue, 13 Dec 2022 16:09:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Bridged LAN Ports - LAN Clients cannot talk to each other on Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:16:50 GMT]]>It looks like you have assigned the switch as an interface. Did you also move the rule filtering to the bridge interface from the members?
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/bridges/firewall.html#bridging-and-firewalling

Really it depends what you have enabled in pfBlocker though. You probably want to put the pfBlocker auto rules on the switch though.

Steve

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1075279https://forum.netgate.com/post/1075279Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:16:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bridged LAN Ports - LAN Clients cannot talk to each other on Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:24:19 GMT]]>When I apply the pfBlocker Outbound firewall rules to the switch (bridged ports), this is what causes the problem. Its working now BUT I don't know why. Anyone?

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]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1075009https://forum.netgate.com/post/1075009Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:24:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Bridged LAN Ports - LAN Clients cannot talk to each other on Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:18:21 GMT]]>Nevermind, I figured out the problem. pfBlocker is blocking local clients. I'm working on figuring out why.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/1075006https://forum.netgate.com/post/1075006Tue, 13 Dec 2022 16:18:21 GMT