pfSense Plus update disables xBox
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First, I'm a total newb to dedicated firewalls - have never tried to work with anything that seems quite so complex. So, why am I using one? Because my generally brilliant son recommended it, and he has most often steered me in the right directions. I hope someone here can help keep that trend running.
Today my Netgate 2100 updated firmware to the latest stable release (26.03) and now, horror of horrors, my xBox can no longer connect to the internet. It reports that "NAT Type" is "Strict" and I think that could be a problem.
Would/could someone please instruct me in modifying any config settings that would change this behavior to work like the previous version of firmware? Advice would be very much appreciated.
TIA.
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Have you taken a look over in the gaming posts? https://forum.netgate.com/category/36/gaming
The first 2 pinned post.
I guessing your Xbox was not assigned a static address. So maybe , after the update it was assigned a differnt ip address and NAT stoped working, maybe.
Here are my ps5 settings that give me NAT 2.static address:
firewall outbound NAT:
you will need to give more info on how you have gaming set up. This is just a guess on my part.
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@Uglybrian Thanks for the reply. Sorry it took so long for me to reply. Again, I have no idea how or why, but sometime after I found the issue, either the firewall, the xBox or both got things working again on its/their own. I haven't had any problems since, other than it has seemed like loading games is taking quite a bit longer. I can live with that.