PFSense C2758 Moved from Office (fixed IP) to Home office (behind FIOS Router)
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Is the Verizon DMZ causing double-NAT issues which is preventing it obtaining a valid WAN address? What's in the Dynamic DNS logs - any clues?
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I'm not seeing anything unusual in the logs.
dyndns.org is working like a champ and hitting the outer router, which in this case, is the Verizon router. I'm wondering if this guide doesn't quite apply to my case given the pfSense box is behind the Verizon router and maybe there is a way further in the guide for the VPN tunnel to get to and thru the Verizon router? Even a double tunnel would be ok but slow. Any thoughts?So I'm trying to configure a VPN to get from a dyndns valid URL, tunnel thru the verizon router to the pfSense which is static IP to the WAN and is assigned to the DMZ, and move from WAN to LAN1 or OPT2 on my pfSense box.
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Solved:
After much reading I came to the conclusion that it is best to put the most powerful router, the pfSense router, outfront and put the Verizon FIOS router running behind the pfsense on a LAN connection. I didn't want to do this because if I'm out of town and the pfSense router hangs then I'd have a heck of a time explaining to family how to reboot, etc. This is the best technical solution, I just had to open my mind while reading the many entries on this site.So in less than an hour I released the WAN IP on the Verizon router, swapped the connection to the WAN connection on pfSense router and Verizon didn't have an issue. Everything came right up. Advice of course is to preconfigure the device then do the switch.
Thank you all. More work ahead but all appears to be falling into place fairly easy.
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I think thats probably the best solution - TBH I haven't had any issues with pfSense stability and I actually found it more stable than some of the off the shelf routers form some ISPs which had limited RAM etc and would lock up randomly requiring a reboot.