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    NAT Reflection/Loopback?

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      warhed
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      Hello,

      I am coming off of an Untangle unit which did this natively but in pfSense I cannot figure it out. I like to be able to test WAN services on my servers/desktop behind the pfSense firewall on our LAN. So, using our outside WAN IP and or Public DNS name I can say test FTP, RDP etc. etc. When I try that now I cannot reach any of my outward facing services.

      I remoted to an outside client machine and tested my services from their systems and everything is working fine. After a search, I believe this is called NAT Reflection or some sort of Loopback? I disabled the NAT Reflect but the "problem" persists.

      Any ideas?

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        dhatz
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        Read http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can't_I_access_forwarded_ports_on_my_WAN_IP_from_my_LAN/OPTx_networks%3F

        Note: NAT Reflection won't work for any UDP services you might have (yet).

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          warhed
          last edited by

          Hmmm, I've done that but still cannot use my RDP/TCP session on myself.

          Boooo, hisssss.

          :P

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            Supermule Banned
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            You are not alone…...

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