So I’ve been working on this blue access line and so far I’ve gotten as far as to be able to get DHCP addresses on the Netgear wireless access point WAN. The router itself is able to complete their ping and traceroutes, but can’t get internet. Of course I set the LAN on the access point to another ip address from the WAN and that’s it, no other configurations on the access point. I have DNS with TLS on the IpFire with all DNS addresses working, but no internet.
I have the Blue Access page set to the disable mac filtering configuration with the ip/subnet, no mac address combination, to allow everyone to use it. I have a computer hooked up to the wifi access point’s ethernet with it’s mac address added to the blue access as well as my personal computer AND the zone configuration of blue set to “bridged” as per the documentation to use the ethernets on the Wifi AP, but when I try to get anything with my PC from the wifi connection, the browser says “proxy refuses connections”. Just in case, I did add both my PC and the computer hooked up2 the Wifi AP IP/Mac address combination to the blue access page, but to no avail. I have no squid configured for the blue access yet, but I would like to set a transparent proxy for it if I can get it working.
The Firewall logs show no blue0 blockings.The Firewall rules have every possible way of allowing red to blue and blue to red access possible including source port forwarding in every direction possible, but still no internet as shows:
I’ve studied every documentation/forum available but there doesn’t seem to be a solution to this problem. It seems this is a blocking problem from the ipfire itself. Anyone know what I’m missing?
This sound wrong.
If blue nic is plugged into PC directly.
Does it work.
If you have properly disabled Mac filter per wiki.
It should.
Know nothing about your AP. Setup.
Lots of us use old wifi routers as AP.
No DHCP fixed IP for router.
Do not use WAN port.
I remember I read somewhere that if you wanted to use your ethernet ports on your router, you’d have to use the “bridge” configuration from the Zone Configuration. I have the IpFire blue0 ethernet plugged into the WAN port of the router, just seemed like that was the right thing to?? I didn’t think you’d plug it into a lan port?
Well, when I just didn’t have firewall rules set up, the wireless access point didn’t get any DHCP addresses at all? The Firewall rules we’re what allowed the router to get the addresses?
Also, I wanted to use another IP address for the Green0 but then I couldn’t reach the web UI at all, until I changed it back to the 192.168.60.1 address… I was hoping I could change that once everything starts to work
Here’s this too… seems legit, but the WAN port on the router says no connection at all with the basic set up… it was the firewall rules that at least got it to accept the DHCP numbers… now the router, without the firewall rules, can’t DHCP the device
