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    Why is NAT proving to be so difficult…..?

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    • Z
      zaf
      last edited by

      Hi everyone,

      for over a week ive been trying to port forward (RDP 3389) to an internal host so that i can access it from work, and i just cannot seem to figure out what im doing wrong, i followed an pfsense article word for word of how to setup NAT to no avail..  :-[
      firewall Rule also created auto-

      Here is my setup -

      Vigin Modem>TP-LINK Router>PFsense>LAN

      so basically i have a Virgin Modem connected to a hardware router IP- 192.168.5.1 which is connected to a Pfsense firewall. (Virtual Machine)

      The WAN IP for the Pfsense is [b]192.168.5.6 and the LAN IP is 192.168.0.1

      I have port forwarded port 3389 from Hardware router (TP-LINKS) to the IP of pfsense WAN ip- 192.168.5.6

      so what is going on guys, as im begining to lose my faith in Pfsense as its proving to be too dificult to setup?

      Thanks in Advance!
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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Remove the source port range. You almost never (ever, seriously) want to set a source port range, especially on a nat rule.

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          zaf
          last edited by

          thanks for the reply,

          so what do i specify there any or other?

          thanks

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            Supermule Banned
            last edited by

            Any…

            @zaf:

            thanks for the reply,

            so what do i specify there any or other?

            thanks

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              zaf
              last edited by

              Excellent! Thats worked, you are a star!!!!

              Thank you very much for a quick resolution- i was almost about to give up on Pfsense!

              Thanks

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