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Well... about all I can give you is everything was great then it installed and I was able to read the update notes. Then it rebooted and would not boot into anything. I am getting ready to start trying stuff. hope I can get it up soon.

I am not really looking for help as I do wired stuff that no one likes.. Like ESXi. (This saves me space and money) but is a bit of a pain when the Router breaks. If I find the problem I will post. 

I really wish you guys would not release updates right before the holidays... Because every time you do it seems to brake things! I dont know if its because everyone wants to go on break or what, but this has happened ever year at about the same time for the last 2 years. Then I have to spend my holiday trying to fix it!

well, thank you for responding to my question.

The only thing that works seems to be "Any" so I guess I am just going to leave it because I am happy with my other settings and feel that I have a good understanding of them. Also I have tried lots of completely different setups to the same affect.

I really enjoy OPNsense and the fact that it has a very active community and the most attractive interface on the block. 

Ok... I thought under "Rules > LAN tab" Was used to control any LAN address (192.168.X.X/24) to any thing including the internet (ISP) and internal network (My Network). I also thought the "Rules > WAN tab" controlled anything coming in the same way.

I was going to create 2 different rules... One controlling LAN (My Network) to LAN (My Network) and one controlling LAN (My Network) to the internet (ISP)   

I thought using Alias to create Rules worked the same way, but that you could fine tune the addresses you wanted to associate to that rule.

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At this point I am starting to second guess all of my setting including my Traffic Shaper settings. Although, the information in the help file seems to be pretty strait forward. I am pretty sure Outbound and Port Forward settings are right because I only get the effect I want when they are enabled (Gaming) - I don't use UPnP.

I have read plenty of info from the help file and posts from this blog that has helped me set most settings, I think, but I was unable to find anything on this one setting so that I would asked.

       

I know what your saying... But I am talking in terms of reaching out side my internal network (LAN). If WAN = the address from your ISP "The Internet" and net = a group of address, than you would think that the "WAN net" would = a group of WAN addresses including your ISP's - if your ISP's given address is connected to the WAN port.

Anyways, I would like to get back to the question... You can correct me all day and I am sure you could do it all night but if I had your knowledge on the subject I probably would not be asking the question.

[Why do I have to create a rule in the LAN tab and set the destination to "any" to get an internet connection?]

Lets assume all other settings are at default.

Thank you for the large write up!
Most of what you said reaffirmed what I already know. Although, some of the info about connections and WAN addresses I did not know.

So .... this would be true?

LAN Address = 192.168.1.X
LAN nat = 192.168.1.0/24
WAN address = (from ISP) +connects you to out side world or just out side your router+
WAN net = (IP's from networks out side your router or ISP) +connects you to outside your router+
any = all of the above

If this is true I should be able to use - WAN address, WAN net, or Any

I guess I am not understanding the terms "LAN net" "WAN net" "LAN Address" "WAN Address" "Any". I know what my LAN network address(s) is/are, and I know what my WAN address is, and I am guessing LAN net is = to my LAN network address 192.168.1.0/24 so I thought that "WAN net" would give me access to the out side world. It would seem in the NAT setup that the "WAN Address" setting does allow you to access the out side world so a thought I could apply the same logic to the Rules. But, it is clear that the terms do not relate.

If some one could point me in the direction of the meaning of these terms in relation to OPNsense and it's settings it would be very helpful. I would like to make sure I have my setting correct.   

I do understand that, but why can't it be set to "WAN address" or WAN Net". Why does it have to be "any"?

Thank you for your reply... I have uploaded some images of settings.

Why do I have to create a rule in the LAN tab and set the destination to "any" to get an internet connection? If I change the destination or delete the rule I have not been able to get through to the internet. I have tryed many different setting in other parts of OPNsense, but no luck.

The only Service I am running is the DHCP Server.

How do you delete a UPNP rule through the GUI?