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    Connect my pfsense to Internet!!!!

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      mr.pine
      last edited by

      Hi,
      I have the following configuration but can not connect my pfsense to internet…
      WAN= 10.20.210.218/30 GW=10.20.210.217
      LAN = x.x.x.100/28 ( I have Public IP Here!! )

      My public servers use ip between x.x.x.97-111 and  x.x.x.100 as their gw ... this works ok .
      In this configuration pfsence use its own WAN ip to connect to internet so ....

      Any Idea to solve this problem ...
      --Mr.Pine

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      • GruensFroeschliG
        GruensFroeschli
        last edited by

        What is not working?
        What did you try?
        How do you test?

        We do what we must, because we can.

        Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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          mr.pine
          last edited by

          TNX for reply
          As I mentioned before , pfsence box can not connect to internet !!!
          It seems that it use its WAN IP (private ip) to go to internet!!!
          I use Diagnostics>Ping to test connection!! pining ip and domain both fails via WAN if but it work via LAN!
          Also System>Package Manager give me this error !!

          Unable to communicate to pfSense.com. Please check DNS, default gateway, etc.
          

          Any Idea?!

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            danswartz
            last edited by

            this is never going to work!  i am gathering that you have public IPs on the LAN, and those are fine, but since your gateway is using private IPs, it cannot talk to anything outside the ISP's network.

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              straightotrash
              last edited by

              You have the addresses swapped.  LAN addresses should be internal (private (10/8, 192.168./16 and 172./12)) and WAN addresses are either DHCP or what your ISP defined for you.

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