Help with Port Forwarding

packeteer · Sep 27, 2011, 1:05 AM

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone on here can shed some light on my issues.

I have PFsense 2.0 running on Alix board and would like to port forward HTTP request to a content filtering server.

My PFsense 2 Lan and Content filtering server are on the same subnet.

I have configured a simple nat rule:

Interface: LAN
Protocol: TCP
Source: Any
Source Port: Any
Destination: Any
Destination Port: 80
Redirect Target IP: 192.168.1.2 (Content Filter server)
Redirect Target Port: 8000

But, I am having problem getting this to work.

I set the gateway on the workstation to that of PFsense LAN.

I would appreciate any assistance.

packeteer · Sep 27, 2011, 10:41 PM

Well I solved the issue.

For anyone experiencing the same problem, make sure you create a NAT outbound rule ;)

tommyboy180 · Sep 27, 2011, 10:45 PM

Pro Tip: If you create a NAT entry first a firewall entry will be created automatically for you by default.
The pfsense GUI has a small learning curve. Most firewall distros don't have a separate NAT entry GUI than the firewall GUI.

podilarius · Sep 28, 2011, 4:23 AM

@tommyboy180:

Pro Tip: If you create a NAT entry first a firewall entry will be created automatically for you by default.
The pfsense GUI has a small learning curve. Most firewall distros don't have a separate NAT entry GUI than the firewall GUI.

This only works for port forward NAT rules. With 1:1 NAT you still have to create the rules.