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Thanks for the reminder. Hope I did it correctly.  :)

Thank you both for replying. Your answers helped me to look closer and of course the error was in front of the keyboard. I made three mistakes. (At least that's what I'm thinking since I made lots of configuration changes so it was hard to track all changes...)

1. The routing towards the Internet was caused by a misconfiguration of my old equipment. (I'm setting up my new OPNsense behind my old setup so that I can learn how things works and once I'm ready, I'll tear down my old setup.)

2. My second interface had an /32 net and not /24 as I intended.

3. I tried to ping interfaces without an ethernet cable connected to it. Therefore the port was down and it seems you cannot ping the interface IP of port that is down. That led to some assumptions on my side that were wrong.

So in summary it works as intended without any routes.
Thanks again for your replies, helping me to see through the mess I've created.

Cheers,
Jan

Hi all,

I'm new to OPNsense and tried my best to search the forum and the Internet. If I missed something or used the wrong search terms, kindly push me in the right direction so that I can improve my Google-fu.

I'm planning to have a management network from which I can administrate my OPNsense box as well as some other network equipment. I've dedicated a interface for that purpose with the interface IP 172.17.19.1/24. For that interface, I have a DHCP-server configured that assigns IP addresses for systems connected to that interface. I can ping the interface and access OPNsense's web interface.

A second interface (I don't have a switch) is dedicated to the other network equipment. The interface IP is 172.17.23.1/24. There is no DHCP-server configured, the network equipment has a static IP address assigned. I can ping the interface IP but I cannot reach the the host. When I perform a traceroute, the package is sent to the WAN-interface and from there to the internet which is obviously wrong.

From what I've read, I don't need or even should configure routes. How do I convince the my OPNsense box to forward packets with a destination IP 172.17.23.1/24 received by the management network interface to the other interface?
In my desperation, I even configured an "any, any, allow"-rule on the management network.

Thanks in advance,
Jan