Building my own router.
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@Master-Henry OK, so your LAN IP is not a valid private IP. Try setting it to 192.168.1.1/24. That's the default and things will probably work.
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Hey guys, sorry I missed your reply @GeorgePatches. I reset my pfsense router both times for when using unmanaged switch and no switch. No dice. I've seen various videos that the default IP address for pfsense is 192.168.1.1 and it is unreachable. No rice cooker sound and no notification that my computer sees that there's another network; usually when I use/install a new router it shows. Very weird. It's almost midnight in NY and I am going to crash. If you guys have any more suggestions, I do appreciate it but find it very weird that it is not working. If all doesn't work. I'm gonna try and install OPNsense.
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@Master-Henry said in Building my own router.:
the default IP address for pfsense is 192.168.1.1 and it is unreachable
It would only be reachable on that IP when the LAN interface is configured to use it of course.
Is there any particular reason you chose to use 168.142.6.1?
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No reason. I changed it just to get into pfsense.
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@Master-Henry said in Building my own router.:
No reason. I changed it just to get into pfsense.
Ok guys. Good news. I got pfsense. Internet and Xbox is working. How do I get Xbox to open NAT? How do I port forward? I do not want UPNP on.
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@Master-Henry said in Building my own router.:
I do not want UPNP on.
Any particular reason? It would make life easier for you.
@Master-Henry said in Building my own router.:
How do I port forward?
Step 1, you need to setup your xbox with a static IP. So either manually set that on the xbox or assign it a static lease in pfsense.
Step 2 to X, follow theses instructions. Assigning port forwards
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Hey George, sorry for the late response. Been playing around with my pfsense router.
Xbox NAT is still strict if I forward all the required ports by Microsoft/Xbox. For one of my PC programs, I port forward a port and it opened up.
Do I need to enable UPNP? I know that there is a deny tick box. On my consumer routers, I disable UPNP because of security reasons/concerns and for gaming NAT. I would get moderate/strict NAT.
Is there another way?
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You might need a static outbound NAT rule for the xbox to prevent it changing the source port.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/nat/outbound.html#nat-staticport
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@stephenw10 I went this route for games it works amazingly well, I also have it running on a different subnet and interface so my NAS and secure VPN side doesn’t see or touch the gaming guest network. Great guide
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@stephenw10 said in Building my own router.:
You might need a static outbound NAT rule for the xbox to prevent it changing the source port.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/nat/outbound.html#nat-staticport
@stephenw10 I believe I did it right, but my NAT is still strict. I also added my xbox via DHCP leases and set up a static IP. Are there any other ways without using UPNP?
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How did you do it? You have screenshots?
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The source address there should be the static IP address reservation for the xbox in the LAN subnet. That should be in the private LAN subnet and as such there is no need to obscure it.
The translation address needs to be the WAN address not LAN.
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The Source IP address is my Xbox. I switched to WAN instead of LAN for translation and it's still strict after restarting my Xbox. I haven't rebooted my router.
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With the rule as it was set I'm surprised the xbox could connect out at all. Try clearing the states.
