Acessing Host on Lan Subnet via Wan Subnet
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Greetings absolute Newbie here,
I am using a Netgate1100. I want to setup an IOT Network separated from a company wide subnet (which is also connected to the internet) by a firewall so I can restrict access to the IOT subnet.
For this purpose I connected the WAN Port (192.168.0.150) to the company subnet and the LAN (192.168.1.1) to a Switch that has the IOT gateways connected.
I can access the Netgate device in each subnet through its respective IP however I do not seem to be able to access one subnet from the other (no matter the direction). I have even disabled the firewall for testing purposes but I can not seem to figure out how to route from one subnet to the other.Again I am quite new to network administration so please excuse some possibly stupid questions.
Thanks in Advance!
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@askon
Consider that you might need a static route on the WAN device to access the network behind pfSense.
I expect that it uses the other firewall as default gateway.A more professional setup would be to bring the IoT firewall into a separated transit network with the upstream router. So you need to set the static routes only on the router and the client devices can still use their default route.
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@viragomann What other firewall are you talking about?
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@askon
The company's firewall.
But I suspect, this is not an option for you. So you would have to go with a static route on the WAN device which you want to access the IoT subnet from.