ICMP in subnet

diekstra

After installing and configuring my shiny new PFsense appliance I encountered a problem with the wireless printer of my girlfriend.
The PFsense box has two ethernet interfaces (WAN & LAN) and an additional OPT1 interface, which is the Wifi interface. DHCP is working on both the LAN and OPT1 networks and all seems to work as it should, I can use my laptop completely wireless for surfing the internet and i can get access on the shares on the several NAS devices. Printing on my own (cabled)printer works great.
But… When I try to ping the wireless printer (which has an address from the DHCP server) I don't get a reply. It doesn't matter what I do, it won't happen.

Weird thing is, I can ping the printer from the PFsense box itself:
PING 192.168.3.103 (192.168.3.103) from 192.168.3.1: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.3.103: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.910 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.3.103: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.673 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.3.103: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.638 ms

I've used Wireshark to capture the packets when I try to ping the printer, the output is attached. It looks like the gateway (PFsense) is handling the response but doesn't know it's an internal address?
I can only ping this printer from a wired desktop, although the printer is connected by Wifi. There are no block rules on the LAN or OPT1 interfaces, allowed is any-to-any on both.

Explanation:
192.168.3.1 = IP of PFsense in OPT1 network
192.168.3.103 = wireless printer
192.168.3.100 = my Macbook (wireless)

Anyone with an idea?

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GruensFroeschli

On the wireless-interface config page:
Is the checkbox "Allow intra-BSS communication" enabled?

diekstra

I feel stupid right now ;)

sanders-mbp:~ sander$ ping EPSON002BFF.localdomain
PING epson002bff.localdomain (192.168.3.103): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.3.103: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=335.937 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.3.103: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=86.043 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.3.103: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=4.178 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.3.103: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=136.680 ms

Solved within 5 minutes, should have read the manual though…

GruensFroeschli

No reason to feel stupid ;)
It's not that usual that an access point allows client separation.