WAN clients can connect but LAN cannot connect to a game server using WPEPro

GruensFroeschli · Mar 13, 2008, 12:01 AM

Which Game?
What does WPEPro do?
You could try to:
Point your WAN-address to your internal server address (on the DNS-forwarder config page)

cheeky · Mar 13, 2008, 12:31 AM

Which Game?
-RAN Online

What does WPEPro do?
-WPEPro changes the returned packet info (LAN IP to a WAN IP and vice versa) if client connects using WAN address so that it can communicate successfully to the client software

You could try to:
Point your WAN-address to your internal server address (on the DNS-forwarder config page)
-how do i do this please?

Thanks for the reply.

GruensFroeschli · Mar 13, 2008, 1:28 AM

Did you even try ??? ???

hint:

(on the DNS-forwarder config page)

cheeky · Mar 13, 2008, 3:13 PM

I tried adding this entry at the DNS forwarder config:

halang 5x.69.xx.109 192.168.1.153 CheekyRAN

Is it right? Sorry, noob here.

Problem still exist.

GruensFroeschli · Mar 13, 2008, 4:14 PM

the first and the second field build together the address.

ie: psymia.mine.nu is the address under which my server is reachable
–>
Host: psymia
Domain: mine.nu
IP: 10.0.0.10

cheeky · Mar 13, 2008, 5:09 PM

Followed your advice in the DNS forwarder, same problem exists.
LAN clients still cannot connect to the game server but WAN clients can.
Here's the link of the procedure that i used to setup WPEPro for my server, hope this can explain more my problem.

http://forum.ragezone.com/f248/guide-server-connection-failed-totally-solved-people-behind-router-359401/

Thanks in advance.

GruensFroeschli · Mar 13, 2008, 5:35 PM

Is there some documentation on what WPEPro really does?
Because from what you describe (and what i saw following your link) it seems as if it rewrites all packages your server sends.
I'm not really sure how that even works in the first place…

hoba · Mar 13, 2008, 5:36 PM

Do the LAN-Users try to access that server by it's public IP or private IP?

cheeky · Mar 13, 2008, 5:56 PM

@hoba

LAN clients access the server via its private IP, ie 192.168.1.153.

while WAN clients access the server via the Public IP, ie 58.6x.15x.1x9. passing thru the NATted firewall.

If i disable the WPEPro, LAN clients can connect but WAN now cannot connect.

What intrigues me is that if a basic router such Linksys BEFSR41 (1WAN port, 4 LAN port) is used, LAN and WAN clients both can connect using WPEPRO.

cheeky · Mar 13, 2008, 5:59 PM

Here is also the documentation of WPEPro:

http://wpepro.net/

Thanks again for your time helping me solve this problem.

hoba · Mar 13, 2008, 6:08 PM

That doesn't make sense at all. pfSense is not sitting between the LAN-Clients and your Server. It absolutely can't block or restrict anything between a LAN-client and a server at LAN. You have a problem with that server not with pfSense imo.

cheeky · Mar 13, 2008, 9:26 PM

My game server is running fine, replacing pfsense with a basic router that have 4 LAN ports readily solves the problem. But if under pfsense, problem exists.
But i still want to use pfsense because i want to filter some WAN IP's trying to connect to my server without my authorization. Such features is not present in many commercial routers available.
Any other suggestions please, to resolve my problem? Do you know of any routers that can block specific public IP adresses from connecting to a game server. Thank you very much.