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Uhg, so you know what it was? I had to type in the ip address pfsense is using into the dhcp service settings, I guess for some reason leaving it blank didn't actually grab the one that it was using and set it as the gateway.
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#31
18.7 Legacy Series / Re: No internet access from client with DHCP, only on static IP's?
November 05, 2018, 08:34:19 AM #32
Tutorials and FAQs / Re: [Tutorial] How I do port forwarding - simple and straightforward
November 05, 2018, 07:48:48 AM
Does something special need to be done for port 80? I'm hosting a website and I've already changed the admin ui to port 440, and disabled the web gui redirect rule, but I just time out any time I try to connect to it, my dns is already set to the public ip, and I can access all my other stuff that's forwarded just fine.
edit: I changed it from being port 80 in the destination port range to any, redirecting to port 80 and now I can access the site, but for some reason when I click a hyperlink back to the home page it times out, whereas it didn't when I was forwarding port 80 tcp/udp on the isp provided router, hmm
The hyperlink is just set to the same address you type in the url bar, this makes no sense.
edit 2: Ok, it's when you put http:// in front of the url that it times out, any ideas on why opnsense is stopping that from working?
edit 3: now it seems to be working fine. Weird. The only annoying thing is previously I could type the address into a web browser and the site would pull up in my browser just fine while I was on the lan, however now I have to type in the IP instead. Any ideas on getting that to work again? I'd much rather just type the website name as I had been doing.
edit: I changed it from being port 80 in the destination port range to any, redirecting to port 80 and now I can access the site, but for some reason when I click a hyperlink back to the home page it times out, whereas it didn't when I was forwarding port 80 tcp/udp on the isp provided router, hmm
The hyperlink is just set to the same address you type in the url bar, this makes no sense.
edit 2: Ok, it's when you put http:// in front of the url that it times out, any ideas on why opnsense is stopping that from working?
edit 3: now it seems to be working fine. Weird. The only annoying thing is previously I could type the address into a web browser and the site would pull up in my browser just fine while I was on the lan, however now I have to type in the IP instead. Any ideas on getting that to work again? I'd much rather just type the website name as I had been doing.
#33
18.7 Legacy Series / [solved] No internet access from client with DHCP, only on static IP's?
November 05, 2018, 03:44:07 AM
Hey all, so I was tearing my hair out for over half an hour trying to figure out why I wasn't getting any internet access on opnsense, when I used vnc to connect to a machine that has a static IP set up in windows.
Turns out that with out of the box opnsense, any computers I have set to a static IP will connect to the internet no problem, no bandwidth issues, nada, but anything that is set to DHCP can see opnsense and stuff on the lan, but can't connect to the internet, and I haven't a clue why.
I tried turning off the dhcp service, and setting the lan from static ip to dhcp, but then that basically stopped me from being able to get into opnsense at all and I had to reinstall.
Here's a bunch of screeenshots of what I can tell are the relevant sections, the floating firewall rule I added as someone else mentioned they had a connectivity problem and that fixed it, but my static IP machines had internet access even without that.
https://imgur.com/a/IoH0P3F
There's more I want to do with this, basically my ISP is providing me with two static IP's, and I want to assign the second one (which will be using the wan interface as well) to a subnet or vlan on the lan interface (same physical port) and have some vm's or other devices use that, I have a managed switch, but right now I just need to get dhcp working.
I'm brand new to this thing as a whole, been wanting to do it for a while and forced to jump in due to the isp being annoying, and having their tech support gone, so figured I may as well get around to replacing their router. Hopefully it's just something simple and quick I missed.
edit: oh yeah, so it automatically set lan to static ip as you see, if I try to change it to dhcp it complains that the server is running on this interface, even if I stop it from the dashboard, so I went into services and disabled dhcp, then set the lan interface to dhcp, however then I couldn't log in even after a reboot, presumably because the dhcp service wasn't enabled. It seems to be a catch 22, and I'm not quite sure why static ip is being enabled by default.
Turns out that with out of the box opnsense, any computers I have set to a static IP will connect to the internet no problem, no bandwidth issues, nada, but anything that is set to DHCP can see opnsense and stuff on the lan, but can't connect to the internet, and I haven't a clue why.
I tried turning off the dhcp service, and setting the lan from static ip to dhcp, but then that basically stopped me from being able to get into opnsense at all and I had to reinstall.
Here's a bunch of screeenshots of what I can tell are the relevant sections, the floating firewall rule I added as someone else mentioned they had a connectivity problem and that fixed it, but my static IP machines had internet access even without that.
https://imgur.com/a/IoH0P3F
There's more I want to do with this, basically my ISP is providing me with two static IP's, and I want to assign the second one (which will be using the wan interface as well) to a subnet or vlan on the lan interface (same physical port) and have some vm's or other devices use that, I have a managed switch, but right now I just need to get dhcp working.
I'm brand new to this thing as a whole, been wanting to do it for a while and forced to jump in due to the isp being annoying, and having their tech support gone, so figured I may as well get around to replacing their router. Hopefully it's just something simple and quick I missed.
edit: oh yeah, so it automatically set lan to static ip as you see, if I try to change it to dhcp it complains that the server is running on this interface, even if I stop it from the dashboard, so I went into services and disabled dhcp, then set the lan interface to dhcp, however then I couldn't log in even after a reboot, presumably because the dhcp service wasn't enabled. It seems to be a catch 22, and I'm not quite sure why static ip is being enabled by default.
