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Title: I cant access the OPNsense server in my homelab from devices outside of my homel
Post by: stamp1t on September 12, 2025, 01:35:05 PM
Hello everyone,

Im very new to OPNsense.

My setup is as follows: i have my ISP router and in the subnet created by it there are multiple devices including my main pc (*) and a mini PC with 2 NICs and OPNsense installed which is supposed to be the router/firewall for my homelab. For now there is only a laptop behind the OPNsense router which i use to configure the firewall.

Now to the problem: I want to access the web GUI of OPNsense from my main pc (*) but i just can not get it to work.

I tried the following things:

Something I noticed is that when I try to access the web GUI from my main pc and watch the firewall logs at the same time, then I see that the packets are being passed (by the rule i created)

I hope someone could help me here, I would appreciate it a lot
Title: Re: I cant access the OPNsense server in my homelab from devices outside of my homel
Post by: Patrick M. Hausen on September 12, 2025, 01:38:26 PM
Firewall > Settings > Advanced > Disable force gateway
Title: Re: I cant access the OPNsense server in my homelab from devices outside of my homel
Post by: stamp1t on September 12, 2025, 01:49:36 PM
Quote from: Patrick M. Hausen on September 12, 2025, 01:38:26 PMFirewall > Settings > Advanced > Disable force gateway
Thank you, but it didnt change anything
Title: Re: I cant access the OPNsense server in my homelab from devices outside of my homel
Post by: Netlearn on September 17, 2025, 04:19:21 AM
Check document (https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/firewall.html#policy-based-routing).

Editing the rule, at the bottom, you'll find "Advanced features".
Click to "Show" them and change "reply-to" to "disable".

Regards!