PfSense DMZ/NAT Help

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Ok so can someone please show me how to set up a DMZ interface on PfSense V2.3.1 (Or the NAT)I need it for a PS4 and NAT wont do anything, but DMZ worked on my other router (Linksys WRT1900AC, gets less than half of PFSenses speed). Please tell me where to click. Online guides are usually outdated and confusing. Thank you

[BrinkGG]

47 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

Ok so can someone please show me how to set up a DMZ interface on PfSense V2.3.1? I need it for a PS4 and NAT wont do anything, but DMZ worked on my other router (Linksys WRT1900AC, gets less than half of PFSenses speed). Please tell me where to click. Online guides are usually outdated and confusing. Thank you

well, there is google... 

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+DMZ&oq=what+is+DMZ&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4235j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=DMZ+setup+pfsense

[TubsAlwaysWins]

12 hours ago, Brink2Three said:

well, there is google... 

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+DMZ&oq=what+is+DMZ&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4235j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#safe=strict&q=DMZ+setup+pfsense

Doesnt help. Tried that 3 times. I clicked on the first 5 results before you sent me that link. ANd every guide on that list is for a much older version of PFSense, and I dont have some of the buttons they have. If I did I wouldnt be asking this question

[AdmnPower]

Rather than doing a DMZ, you could just try forwarding the following ports to your PS4.

 

• TCP: 80, 443, 1935, 3478-3480
• UDP: 3478-3479

According to my web search these are the ones that you need to make a PS4 happy with it's internet connection. 

[.spider.]

I don't see why a real DMZ is required for a PS4?

Many consumer grade routers call an exposed host a DMZ which is totally wrong.

So maybe you are a bit confused about what a DMZ is.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

4 hours ago, AdmnPower said:

Rather than doing a DMZ, you could just try forwarding the following ports to your PS4.

 

• TCP: 80, 443, 1935, 3478-3480
• UDP: 3478-3479

According to my web search these are the ones that you need to make a PS4 happy with it's internet connection. 

I dont think my ISP allows Port Forwarding. (Hilltop Wireless)

http://hilltop-broadband.com/index.html

I had all of those ports forwarded and I still had NAT Type 3

 

[dalekphalm]

18 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

I dont think my ISP allows Port Forwarding. (Hilltop Wireless)

http://hilltop-broadband.com/index.html

I had all of those ports forwarded and I still had NAT Type 3

 

He's saying to do the port forwarding in pfsense so that when NAT happens, it forwards those ports to the PS4. Your ISP cannot prevent that kind of port forwarding from happening, since it happens at the NAT level, not at the ISP level.

[.spider.]

5 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

He's saying to do the port forwarding in pfsense so that when NAT happens, it forwards those ports to the PS4. Your ISP cannot prevent that kind of port forwarding from happening, since it happens at the NAT level, not at the ISP level.

If there's CGN you can not forward a port

[AdmnPower]

12 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

He's saying to do the port forwarding in pfsense so that when NAT happens, it forwards those ports to the PS4. Your ISP cannot prevent that kind of port forwarding from happening, since it happens at the NAT level, not at the ISP level.

I'm not familiar with Hilltop Wireless but if it's like most other wireless providers odds are OP doesn't have a true public IP address which would explain why port forwards don't fix the problem. Can you check and see what IP address is on the WAN port of your pFsense box? That'll answer the question for us so we can figure out maybe what to do next. 

[TubsAlwaysWins]

3 hours ago, AdmnPower said:

I'm not familiar with Hilltop Wireless but if it's like most other wireless providers odds are OP doesn't have a true public IP address which would explain why port forwards don't fix the problem. Can you check and see what IP address is on the WAN port of your pFsense box? That'll answer the question for us so we can figure out maybe what to do next. 

My way around the problem was I used a switch and ran my ISP line into the switch. Then it goes out to mmy PS4 and out to my Router, so my PS4 snit om a router.

WAN Address is 192.168.100.36

[AdmnPower]

Sounds like a reasonable enough solution to me as it avoids the double NAT problem you were having. 192.168.100.36 is definately a private address so that does really limit what you can do.