[pfSense] Installed but no internet

[Lilrich]

Right!

It looks like we are getting somewhere now.

I setup SquidGuard as your instructions above, stopped and restarted squidguard and now it appears everything is working.

At the bottom of the long BLOCKLIST i choose allow all for now until i can figure out how to apply a certain category to only 1 IP.

Your an amazing chap Bud :D Thanks again.

[+BudMan MVC]

That would be an ACL, let me take a look at how you do that.

edit:

Here you go, create a group ACL, put in your kids IP as source, I used 192.168.1.40

Then I created a new category, kids - and put in yahoo.com

In the group ACL block your new custom cat or categories you want - and shazam

in my virtual machine that is on 192.168.1.40 can not access yahoo.com

But my host machine on .100 can.

[Lilrich]

--Budman

Spent a while lat night looking at the different options in SQUIDGUARD and managed to get an ACL setup for 192.168.33.253 which worked, so after all your help i have finally got it working and i think i now know what i was doing wrong, when specifying to use the blocklist i wasn't telling it to use the LOCAL database also i hadn't setup any categories for it to block or deny so it looks like it was BLOCKING everything by default.

I am going to take the screenshots you posted above and make a reference guide for the future, i also noticed a CONFIG BACKUP package which i can install to backup the configuration of the firewall which may be worth doing.

Earlier on at the start of this thread you also mentioned in an edit so i didn't catch it until i was reading back over the thread but you said something about DNS and not using the ISP DNS and you also said something about installing UNBOUND which i can't find so i have either read something wrong done something wrong or need to do something i haven't done. -- I also notice that on the general settings page i have the box ticked which says something about getting DNS from the ISP.

Thanks again for all your help

:woot: :woot: :woot:

[+BudMan MVC]

yeah you can run your own recursive nameserver, install the unbound package

So my clients never talk to my isp dns, or forward a dns request -- pfsense is the dns server. It talks to roots directly, etc. You can use dnssec this way.

maybe you play with what you got working for awhile - and we can move on to DNS at a later date ;)

[Lilrich]

That is cool.

However unbound isn't available anyways

[+BudMan MVC]

hmmm guess its only a 2.0 package - shame.. Good reason to move to the 2.0 version ;)

[bolerodan]

Agreed. 2.0 hit RC1. I'm using 2.0 RC1 in an environment and its working like a charm!

[+BudMan MVC]

Ok -- come on now.. Who rep'd a post that says in essence "Im using 2.0 RC1"

But the 3 pages of posts where I walk him through every step, tell him what he did wrong and post screenshots, etc. etc. Gets none??

Something wrong with this picture! ;)

[bolerodan]

Ok -- come on now.. Who rep'd a post that says in essence "Im using 2.0 RC1"

But the 3 pages of posts where I walk him through every step, tell him what he did wrong and post screenshots, etc. etc. Gets none??

Something wrong with this picture! ;)

Ahaha thats actually kind of funny. Crazy world we live in eh Budman, what with earthquakes and Tsunamis and all.

Perhaps its PfSense developers trying to push their latest release :shiftyninja: :shiftyninja:

:p

[+BudMan MVC]

Im not knocking you getting a rep - good for you(but did you earn it?), it just did not make sense to me - I got a PM that he rep'd me for the help I did which is great.. To be honest I could care less, just here to help people - I have gotten my fair share of rep around the forum - it feels good when people upvote you - don't get me wrong. But as long as the post help the OP or the next guy is what matters.

I just found it odd that someone rep'd a post that I had already posted he should do a few times - I agree the 2.0 line is more than stable enough to run in a home, or even a production environment to be sure. And quite a few +'s to doing so.. But the 1.2.3 line REALLY STABLE and great as well. But I like to be on the cutting edge myself - and 2.0 makes more sense with the ipv6 suff I have been playing with lately!!

But come on -- who stops by and reps a post like yours, which is a great kick in the ass for the OP mind you to move to the latest version - dont get me wrong.. But they clearly do not understand what the rep system is suppose to do.. You don't rep +1 type posts, you don't rep "me too" type posts, you don't rep "yeah I agree with that" type posts -- its suppose to be for posts that HELPED/SOLVED the users problem. And sorry but you run 2.0 does not fall into that area no way no how :)

Maybe you have great other posts? But to me I look at 631 posts in like 7 years = LURKER!! Not even part of the community at all. Sorry!

The rep system is not meant to be a 'like" type system - atleast from my take of it. Its not reddit clicking upvote, etc. But I do feel you should be able to click to see who rep'd -- can you???

[bolerodan]

Im not knocking you getting a rep - good for you(but did you earn it?), it just did not make sense to me - I got a PM that he rep'd me for the help I did which is great.. To be honest I could care less, just here to help people - I have gotten my fair share of rep around the forum - it feels good when people upvote you - don't get me wrong. But as long as the post help the OP or the next guy is what matters.

I just found it odd that someone rep'd a post that I had already posted he should do a few times - I agree the 2.0 line is more than stable enough to run in a home, or even a production environment to be sure. And quite a few +'s to doing so.. But the 1.2.3 line REALLY STABLE and great as well. But I like to be on the cutting edge myself - and 2.0 makes more sense with the ipv6 suff I have been playing with lately!!

But come on -- who stops by and reps a post like yours, which is a great kick in the ass for the OP mind you to move to the latest version - dont get me wrong.. But they clearly do not understand what the rep system is suppose to do.. You don't rep +1 type posts, you don't rep "me too" type posts, you don't rep "yeah I agree with that" type posts -- its suppose to be for posts that HELPED/SOLVED the users problem. And sorry but you run 2.0 does not fall into that area no way no how :)

Maybe you have great other posts? But to me I look at 631 posts in like 7 years = LURKER!! Not even part of the community at all. Sorry!

The rep system is not meant to be a 'like" type system - atleast from my take of it. Its not reddit clicking upvote, etc. But I do feel you should be able to click to see who rep'd -- can you???

now you're making something out of nothing.. and now making this personal. You say you dont care, yet you make a post ALL about it, and NOW you target me, specifically the bold part.

I've always respected your knowledge of things Budman, but this is disrespectful to something I havnt done. Thanks for derailing this, and if you have a problem with my "post count" and calling me a lurker. PM NEXT TIME.

Insulted. You tend to do that a lot.

Ridiculous BudMan.

Also, stop being concerned about "message board rep" it means nothing in life. I'm not going to forget this next time I see you being targeted... which I have seen before in other posts. Why should I rep your posts now? When I have plenty of times in the past...

[+BudMan MVC]

I might have worded that a bit harsh.. :blush:

I did not mean anything bad directed at you to be honest, but more at the person that rep'd you.. The lurker comment was uncalled for, sorry!!

This is more what should of stood out - and clearly not direct towards you since you can not rep your own posts.

"You don't rep +1 type posts, you don't rep "me too" type posts, you don't rep "yeah I agree with that" type posts -- its suppose to be for posts that HELPED/SOLVED the users problem"

"The rep system is not meant to be a 'like" type system - atleast from my take of it. Its not reddit clicking upvote,"

The beers and irish whisky I had been consuming since 2pm might have had a bit to do with my lurker comment? :blush:

[bolerodan]

I might have worded that a bit harsh.. :blush:

I did not mean anything bad directed at you to be honest, but more at the person that rep'd you.. The lurker comment was uncalled for, sorry!!

This is more what should of stood out - and clearly not direct towards you since you can not rep your own posts.

"You don't rep +1 type posts, you don't rep "me too" type posts, you don't rep "yeah I agree with that" type posts -- its suppose to be for posts that HELPED/SOLVED the users problem"

"The rep system is not meant to be a 'like" type system - atleast from my take of it. Its not reddit clicking upvote,"

The beers and irish whisky I had been consuming since 2pm might have had a bit to do with my lurker comment? :blush:

Apology accepted.

[count0nz]

Pfsense Rocks.. I am running 2.0 RC2 now.. Did the OP solve this issue in the end ?

And Glad you 2 kissed and made up ;-)

Seriously tho... got to see the funny side of all this..

Take care.

Phillip.

[+BudMan MVC]

Yes he did get it worked out. His internet access problem was fixed when he turned his gateway device into just a modem - see earlier in the thread

"I changed the DG834G router into modem only mode which makes it into a modem only device"

Then to his accessing his modems private IP - that was fixed too, he had the wrong virtual IP set on his wan interface to allow talking to his modems internal private IP. He had set the virtual ip to the same as his modems IP 192.168.10.1 vs .2

we used teamviewer and I got on his box so I could look at his pfsense config - once he corrected that it worked just fine.

The link to the pfsense doc is earlier in the thread, but for quick reference here it is again

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Accessing_modem_from_inside_firewall

[SirEvan]

I dont want to knock anyone or PFsense, but with all the trouble the OP had, I think he might of had an easier time going with smoothwall, compared to PFsense (at least to me), it may have been easier to configure OOB. Budman you sure do have a lot of patience :) Sometimes it can be difficult trying to explain stuff to people without being able to be physically there to show someone, I have to do it daily to people deployed overseas in hot zones.

[+BudMan MVC]

The user most likely would of had issues with any router distro to be honest.. His "modem" was not a modem - it was a gateway (modem/router combo) doing NAT. And he setup his LAN network on pfsense to be the same as what his gateway was using as its private network 192.168.33/24 -- so he had the same network on both his lan and his wan of his pfsense box.

I have chatted with him quite a bit on PM, he is trying but his basic understanding of networking needs work ;)

But he is getting there - and last I heard very happy with his setup now that he got it figured out in his head what he was doing wrong.

Nothing wrong with smoothwall -- its a great firewall/router distro.. I have not played with it for quite some time. But sure it's a fantastic choice as well - there are many firewall/router distro's out there - they all have pluses and minuses.. For the last few years I have been a using pfsense, but ipcop, smoothwall, etc all work too.

lately have been running the development ipv6 stuff from pfsense, which is working out great. Not a lot of distro's out there will full tunnel/firewall support for ipv6 - and its not in the mainline for pfsense either yet, not til they start work on the 2.1 version.

How is smoothwalls ipv6 support? Is it in the mainline version - if it is a more mature implementation I might have to take another look at it.

[SirEvan]

The user most likely would of had issues with any router distro to be honest.. His "modem" was not a modem - it was a gateway (modem/router combo) doing NAT. And he setup his LAN network on pfsense to be the same as what his gateway was using as its private network 192.168.33/24 -- so he had the same network on both his lan and his wan of his pfsense box.

I have chatted with him quite a bit on PM, he is trying but his basic understanding of networking needs work ;)

But he is getting there - and last I heard very happy with his setup now that he got it figured out in his head what he was doing wrong.

Nothing wrong with smoothwall -- its a great firewall/router distro.. I have not played with it for quite some time. But sure it's a fantastic choice as well - there are many firewall/router distro's out there - they all have pluses and minuses.. For the last few years I have been a using pfsense, but ipcop, smoothwall, etc all work too.

lately have been running the development ipv6 stuff from pfsense, which is working out great. Not a lot of distro's out there will full tunnel/firewall support for ipv6 - and its not in the mainline for pfsense either yet, not til they start work on the 2.1 version.

How is smoothwalls ipv6 support? Is it in the mainline version - if it is a more mature implementation I might have to take another look at it.

Ipv6 is still in it's infant stages with smoothwall, with update 8 that was just pushed out they added kernel support, but I don't think it's ready for prime time. I touched pfsense briefly when setting up my firewall/router, but when i gave smoothwall a test 2 years ago, it just worked. I spent maybe 5 minutes out of the box with it's setup tool and it just launched. installing packages/mods requires a little more work (usually requires the terminal), but it's very robust, and if you're into caching/im filtering, that's already built into the box (imspector and squid). for those with multicore processors, SMP is now supported as well.

[+BudMan MVC]

All of those features are available on pfsense - it works out of the box as well.. Its normally a 5 minute install to up and running.. The OP just for some strange reason setup his lan network to the same as his router he already had. That would of caused an issue with any router distro.

Understanding that he was already doing nat, or for that matter keeping the default lan ip range would of worked with a double nat, etc.

Squid is click to install no terminal access required to install packages like squid, squidguard, im inspector, etc.

Im glad your happy with smoothwall - its a good distro and all.. But with what the OP did smoothwall would of had the same issue.

Hard to route traffic and nat when your lan IP is the same IP as the gateway on your wan interface ;)