Cant access wireless clients from wired PCs
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Hello,
I'm running pfSense 1.2.3 and I have a problem with accessing wireless clients from wired PCs. The wifi clients can access internet and the wired PCs, ping, smb,ftp, everything works. If I try the other way around I get request timed out. The hostnames of wifi clients are resolved proprely. How can I solve this?
Jure
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Are you sure there is no firewall on this wireless client?
Does your firewall rule on the wired interface allow access to the the WLAN? -
As for the firewall on the client I'm 100% sure. But I'm unsure about the rules in the firewall on the pfsense. How does it have to be set up?
Here's my current setup:
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You have "allow everything" rules on both interfaces, so you can exclude the pfSense from the picture.
I would still check again that you don't have a firewall on the client. (windows tends to reenable it's firewall without asking…)Otherwise:
Do a tcpdump/wireshark on the client and see if the packets actually arrive on the client.
Do a TCPdump on the pfSense to see if the packets go out / a response comes back. -
I added these rules to allow everything on lan and wireless and it started working about an hour later - had to do a manual restart of pfsense. Thank you for your help.
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Its often necessary to do a pfSense firewall state reset after changing firewall rules. See Diagnostics -> States, click on Reset States tab.
