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Hello and thank you for the link. I will check it out. I am running it on a Micro Firewall appliance, so the harder challenge is to find a Wifi NIC that will fit in it. And there is little room so it's like the 1/2 size laptop module. So find the acceptible chip set and then the right size module.  Thank you.

Hello,

I am very new to this forum, I did try to see if things were broken down by topic like network / wifi or  other classifications and did not see  such and see breakdown by Version. I did look to see if I could find a search fuction to search the entire 25.1 section for posts with wifi in it and either I was not looking in the right area or overlooked such a function. I am wanting to get a backup WAN connection set up, in OPNSENSE and I read it can be done.  I would use it only if my primary internet failed. I work from home and the other week a Snow plow truck hit the power pole and cut my fiber cable to my house and was without connection for 2 days, Not good when during the week and you can't do your job and work. So I want to be able to use the hot spot mode on my cell as a emergency backup. (I had read how BSD would allow a USB Tether / Internet connection but seen in OPNSENSE is does not have the drivers or needed peices and did not want to cludge files from a regular BSD install disk into OPNSENSE. I have tried 3 different WIFI modules, and it is not finding them. I did research forums and fund a couple of Intell wifi modules that are suppose to work / be supported by BSD.  I install them and run  ifconfig -l and don't see a WLAN adapter.  So does anyone know of any adapters that they could provide me with the make / model  / part number so I can source them from Amazon or other PC vendors. I am looking for ones that right out of the box when installed in the PC it just automatically sees the new adapter and already has drivers for it ready to go. The money I lost from loosing 2 days of work without Internet, I am willing to buy a few different WIFI modules and see what works.

Chad

Hello,  I have figured out the issue as to why my port forwarding was not working. It was nothing to do with what I was doing or setting up in OpenSense. I live in an area called the Quad Cities, Which is Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, IL. We have a all fiber Internet provider called MetroNet. I have had their service for about 3 months and was not doing much with my camera system and web server so I never knew that port forward was not working. (even with my TP-Link gaming router)

So a generalized F.Y.I.  to all who are / may be having the same issues as I was.  Make a call to your ISP provider to double check to see if it is anything on their end. So in my case with MetroNet, how / what they use to give me my I.P. (WAN) address will not allow any port forwarding of any kind. I even was using NoIP's DDYNS service which I pay for.  I was noticing that what I.P. my WAN was getting was not what was being reported as what my WAN address was as seen by the Outside Internet. In order to fix and resolve the situation, I needed to request a static I.P. from my ISP, and for an extra $10 a month it's worth it.

So after my ISP issued and converted my account over to a Static I.P. address, everything works. When I go to  Ping.EU website and run their utilities for check to see if port 80 and 443 are open, it now reports as open, which each time I tried the other day would report as closed. I watched many videos, and forum posts on how to do port forward, and my settings were exactly as stated in the videos / forum posts but no luck. I even for a time wiped out my Opensense firewall system and just for the heck of it as a control test installed PFSense and got the same results.  I know PFsense is a very , very bad word in this forum, But I am re-installing Opensense now on it.  I must say I do like OpenSense and its GUI much better than Open Sense. 

Just glad to know I was not going nuts and doing something wrong, this forum has very good instructions, so again, if you have configured everything correctly for port forward and noting is working,  place a call to your internet service provider technical support and see if there is something on their end causing the blockage. I was using Mediacom for my previous ISP service and with my NoIP DDYNS service my portforwarding was working fine.

So it was not like I was using a store bought Linksys, or other brand home router / gaming roughter and just switched to using Opensense, I switched providers all together. So if you are using the same ISP provider, and what ever you were using before Opensense, is working fine with port forwarding, and you switch in the Opensense and it does not work, in that case I would assume a configuration might not be set correct.

Hello,

Oddly I am having the same issue for port forwarding 80 and 443.  I am very new to OpenSense. Was a Sophos UTM user for over 15 years before I exceeded the 50 computer free home license version and could not easily get ahold of a rep to see what a paid version would cost. Bought a $200 plus home gaming router to find out it only supports 30 Static DHCP reservations, so I researched for a rock solid and highly recommended open source firewall, router software to learn and use.

I just set up my Opensense firewall last weekend, and just did the most basic "out of the box" install and started using it. This weekend I am hoping to get the port forwarding up and working, and then look at additional packages / functions to install. I did watch a few Youtube videos, read some forums and dug around a little and still no go.  I found a really great HOW-TO  at https://www.zenarmor.com/docs/network-security-tutorials/how-to-configure-opnsense-nat
They have a very good straight forward instructions for port forward 80 and 443.  I do have my WAN  unchecked to allow private networks to pass. But alas still no luck getting it to work. One of the videos noted website ping.eu to use to test to see if the port is open or not.  I thought that be easier than trying to do it from my cell phone to test the ports from an outside source.

Does anyone have a very step by step of all the settings, and post them to cross reference, I seen in a earlier post there was a configuration of what settings to set  for a recorder and cross checked against that with no luck. I just updated and am running the latest Firware of Opensense as of August 3, 2024. There has to be something very simple I am missing.

Interfaces WAN I have block private networks unchecked, I have no idea why that should matter, any Private I.P. Scopes are not passed by Internet  / ISP routers to begin with (less it is looking at the outgoing traffice, but that all internal machines would / should be Natted so that as they leave out the wan to have the I.P. of the WAN interface and not the internal 192.168.x.x) I would think it could be checked  so it blocks that.

Interface: WAN
TCP/IP Version: IPV4
Protocol: TCP
Source: Left at default / un touched
Destination / invert: un checked (at default)
Destination: WAN Address
Destination Port range:  From: HTTP        To: Http
Redirect Target IP: Single host or network   and then internal I.P. of webcam server.
Redirect target port: Http
Pool options: Default (never changed)
Log:  I have it logging packets for now.
Category: (left blank / default)
Description: Allow HTTP to Webcam
Set local tag: (empty / at default)
Match local tag:  (empty / at default)
No XML RPC Sync:  (unchecked / at default)
NAT Reflection:  Use system default
Filter rule association:  Rule Allow HTTP to web cam (I had it selected to create the rule so that is what it did and put for description)

My HTTPS port forwarding is also the very same settings with the exception of pointing to the web server and using HTTPS.

Anything jumping out at any one?
Chad