Connected to wireless interface, yet cannot ping it

dm9876

Hi team

I have setup a pfSense system (1.2-RC4) with D-Link DWL-G510 Wireless NIC on opt2. This is a supported card http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/D-Link

Everything else with the pfSense box is working OK (connect from LAN to internet on WAN etc).

The Wireless interface is configured as an Access point. WPA-PSK. My WinXP Spk2 machine authenticates and connects fine. It even gets an IP etc via DHCP (client gets 192.168.10.190, Access Point IP is 192.168.10.1)

first problem is that I cannot ping 192.168.10.1 from 192.168.10.190.

If I run a packet capture from the pfSense box, I can see the ICMP echo requests coming from 192.168.10.190 yet it is not responding.

(Note: not sure that it affects things at this level, but I have setup firewall rule to allow the WIFI subnet to access the WAN (with or without this makes no difference).

Any ideas?

GruensFroeschli

The WLAN is a OPTx:

@http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic:

If you want to have Internet access from multiple LAN subnets (on various OPTx interfaces) enable Advanced outbound NAT.
You need to create a rule for every subnet you want NAT'ed.
Alternatively you can change the source of single existing rule from LAN to "any" thus NAT'ing everything.
This might create a problem for FTP with multiWAN
more here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7096.msg40810.html#msg40810

Could you post a screenshot of your rule you created on the WLAN interface here?

dm9876

Hi Gruens,

I would have thought I'd need to be able to ping the interface (ie have IP working on it) before worrying about NAT and access to the WAN network.

Never the less I added the rule and still I cannot ping the 192.168.10.1 interface.

Here is the NAT rules

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dm9876

Here are some additional screen shots of the config.

The only thing that seems a little strange to me is the DHCP leases where it shows the address which is given to the wireless client as expired?? the client shows the lease as still active (as expected).

If there are not any great ideas I suppose I will simplify the config as much as possible to see where its going wrong. Static IP, no Encryption etc.

Thanks

Dean

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GruensFroeschli

Your firewall rule is wrong.
Destination WAN-Interface means EXACTLY THAT

You allow right now only access to the IP of your WAN.

Your rule should look something like that:

Source: "WLAN-subnet" –> or in the case of bridging "LAN-subnet"
Destination: *

dm9876

Fantastic, all working now. I miss understood thinking that was allowing anything going via the WAN rather than specifically the ip of the WAN interface itself.

So I have setup as you described but with a rule before it that is blocking anything coming from WIFI headed for LAN subnet.

Thanks again.

Dean

GruensFroeschli

If you want to filter from WLAN to LAN you also need to enable the filtering of bridges.

Advanced –> "Enable filtering bridge"

Also make sure that your rules have the right order
--> http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7001.0.html

dm9876

In my case WIFI and LAN are different subnets so I think it should be OK (ie routed not bridged).

Thanks for the link to the other topic, some useful tips in there

Dean