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Limiting WAN access by ip question

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    khris2fer
    last edited by khris2fer Feb 20, 2023, 3:22 PM Feb 20, 2023, 2:54 PM

    I'm fairly new to pfsense..... I wanted an easy way to access some of my machines via RDP.... I didn't want to open to the entire internet... I hardened the encryption to the max for RDP and changed default listening port.. this may be a silly question... I did limit them so I could access them from a few specific public ip addresses. As far as the rest of the internet... any ip address other than the specific ones.... would they see my firewall as as having closed ports as if port forwarding wasn't turned on at all? Just checking into how safe this is to do. Thanks

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      Saqqara
      last edited by Saqqara Feb 23, 2023, 1:35 PM Feb 23, 2023, 1:27 PM

      As you have restricted rdp access from source certain IP's , a scan on wan ip will come back closed.

      You can check yourself - https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

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        khris2fer @Saqqara
        last edited by Feb 23, 2023, 11:37 PM

        @saqqara said in Limiting WAN access by ip question:

        https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

        Thank You..... that's what I was hoping...as it would be pointless to do this otherwise but I wanted to be sure... thanks for the url

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