I have a scenario where pfSense1 is running the gateway to the Internet for LAN1 in an office with its own WAN. Another box, pfSense2, is running the gateway out to another LAN2, a network administered by other people, where there's a shared printer on a LAN shared by other organisations and that LAN has its own Internet connection for those other organisations.
pfSense2's LAN interface is on LAN1 and its WAN interface is on LAN2. pfSense2 has as its gateway the LAN2 gateway address, which doesn't work (for whatever reason, maybe it requires a subscription, I don't know). I access pfSense2 using VNC from a PC on LAN1, upgrading using .tgz files, but now that pfSense 2.3 doesn't support upgrade in this way, I need to get pfSense2's Internet access working. I presume I do this by swapping pfSense2's WAN and LAN assignments around, and giving its WAN the gateway address of pfSense1? I administer this remotely. Is there a way to do the above without losing connection to pfSense2 half way through the procedure? If I swap the WAN and LAN around, is different firewalling rules going to come into play, or some other issue, and break access to the printer for PCs on LAN1? Or is there an alternate means of getting Internet access to pfSense2, maybe by adding a gateway address to its LAN interface? I already specifically allow traffic out to the printer's IP address, and turn this off: Interfaces -> WAN -> [ ] Block private networks and loopback addresses Thanks in advance -- Pete Boyd Open Plan IT - http://openplanit.co.uk The Golden Ear - http://thegoldenear.org _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
