Access servers behinf firewall by local clients

ASGR71

Hi Guys,

I have two SG1100 connected in series:

INTERNET
|
V
PRIMARY SG1100 -> SWITCH -> GENERAL CLIENTS
                  |
                  V
                  SECONDARY SG1100 -> SWITCH -> SERVERS

Probably not the best setup but options are limited.
The Primary, connected to the internet, connects all general machines.
The Secondary, connected to the Primary, connects all the servers for an additional level of security.

I managed to forward connections from an external WAN connection through the Primary to the Secondary to a PLEX server as per the following 'How To' https://portforward.com/help/doublerouterportforwarding.htm and all works well...

Unfortunately, I'm having problems trying to forward local clients on the Primary to the servers on the Secondary.

I'd like to access my PLEX server by other devices on the Primary and realise that I need other ports-forwarded (i.e. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201543147-what-network-ports-do-i-need-to-allow-through-my-firewall/) but I don't know how to port-forwarding correctly for local clients. All infrastructure IP addresses are static

Can someone direct me to the correct manual page / external link / give example / or menu option location?

Thanks.

SteveITS

@asgr71 Did you enable NAT Reflection on each of the NAT rule(s) on PRIMARY? If not, requests from GENERAL CLIENTS would not use NAT and requests to the WAN IP of PRIMARY would not reflect back in.

You could also use split DNS so GENERAL CLIENTS directly use the WAN IP address of SECONDARY.

ASGR71

Thanks Steve!

Finally got the right option.
Had to use NAT + Proxy.