Forward connection to another external IP?

dadaniel · Dec 30, 2009, 8:37 AM

Is it possible to forward a connection to port 80 coming from WAN of the pfsense box to another server on the WAN interface?

for example the domain of my pfsense box is pfsenseforever.com but I want to point visitors of this adress to website.com
This should only apply to port 80 connections!

jimp · Dec 30, 2009, 7:29 PM

No, not easily.

You might be able to pull it off with some sort of bounce daemon, but nothing supported or built-in.

pf can't "reflect" a connection back out the same interface it enters.

GruensFroeschli · Jan 4, 2010, 4:09 PM

I worked around something like that:

I did it by having an OpenVPN connection between the two locations.
I then forwarded the traffic to an IP on the other side of the tunnel.
For traffic leaving back the original way i enable AoN and NATed traffic into the tunnel.
Like this all requests seem to the server as if they come from the pfSense on the other side of the tunnel.