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New to pfSense.

My pfSense WAN = 192.168.1.50 (DHCP from my home router)

My pfSense LAN = 192.168.55.0/24

My Cisco switch = 'Default VLAN1 with 192.168.55.254`

I can ping from 192.168.55.0/24 devices to any device at 192.168.1.0/24.

However, I can only access the pfSense firewall at 192.168.55.10 from 192.168.1.0/24 but not the devices on 192.168.55.0/24 network.

Here is the simple topology: enter image description here

Laptop can't ping PCs on the LAN but LAN PCs can ping my laptop... What am I missing?

Shery
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    What is your topology ? UpLink -> home router -> cisco switch -> pfSense ? – Marcel Jul 12 '22 at 12:22
  • Hi @Marcel, just drew a simple diagram for you. thanks – Shery Jul 12 '22 at 12:57
  • In my opinion your pfSense box should be sitting before your home router. That way the pfSense WAN will get the public IP and route everything accordingly, granted that ISP modem is also set to Bridge, to allow routing to be performed by pfSense. – Marcel Jul 12 '22 at 13:15
  • IMHO you can't call it WAN if it's on the same building... with private IPs. – Marcel Jul 12 '22 at 13:16
  • I would change it to: ISP modem (bridge) -> pfSense -> cisco switch -> home router – Marcel Jul 12 '22 at 13:17
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    ah wait, is pfSense a VM running in proxmox ? Is that the reason behind the topology choice ? – Marcel Jul 12 '22 at 13:19
  • yes, pfSense is running as a VM within Proxmox. That's why this topology suits me the best. – Shery Jul 12 '22 at 13:41
  • https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/35716/port-forwarding-on-unavoidable-double-nat-pfsense - disable NAT. Add route on the *outer* network pointing to your pfsense box. – vidarlo Jul 12 '22 at 15:36
  • Hi @vidarlo, I have disabled NAT. where do I add route on the outer network? you mean router? if yes then I already have a static route on the router pointing at my pfsense box. this is the reason I can open pfsense GUI on the laptop (pls look at the diagram) – Shery Jul 12 '22 at 15:48
  • Then you have your route. Note that home related questions are off topic on this site. – vidarlo Jul 12 '22 at 16:17

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