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    Cannot ping pfsense box

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      phil123456
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      Hello,

      I installed the latest version of pfsense, and set the ip adress of the WAN interface(em0)

      all local network boxes can go to internet through pfsense firewall and even ping the WAN ip of pfsense box

      then I realized, pfsense was not responding to ping from outside

      I notice that for one brief moment it is pingable while the system is booting but then it goes off again

      can someone help ?

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        marcvb
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        I think you have to allow ICMP to the firewall over wan.

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          phil123456
          last edited by

          :-) you think ?
          I see the requests of my machine in the filter log, so I guess they are filtered
          I just have to figure how to do this :-)

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            marcvb
            last edited by

            1. was playing on the safe side.
              Got to Firewall -> Rules -> Wan click on the Add button.

            Create the rule with the following settings:
            Action: Pass
            Interface: WAN
            Protocol: ICMP
            Source: any (or the other side you want to ping it from)
            Destionation: This firewall (self)

            Press save and reload.

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              phil123456
              last edited by

              wow it works like a charm

              so my machine is pingable

              but still cant connect to vpn and cant ssh to it

              I started the ssh shell in system admin, received notifications that ssh keys were created

              but although a netstat seems to show ssh listening, the ssh deamon is not running ???

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                phil123456
                last edited by

                ok I made the changes in the firewall, it accepts ssh

                strange the web config does not do that automaticaly

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                  marcvb
                  last edited by

                  Do you have the vpn connected ?
                  You will also have to create rules in the firewall for IPsec.
                  In the firewall you will find floating, wan, lan and ipsec rules.

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