pfsense question...

unfbilly11

I am trying to use pfsense to setup a connection between 2 forests that I have created.

Forest 1= Bridged adaptor (my home WiFi):192.168.1.12 Internal LAN: 10.10.50.0/24
Forest 2 = Bridged adaptor (my home WiFi): 192.168.1.9 Internal LAN: 10.20.50.3/24



My question is...how do I get these 2 subnets to talk to one another? In the real world, I would create a VPN between the 2 but since these are both technically on my home network, I am struggling to wrap my brain around this. Does anyone know how to set this up?

Thanks very much in advance

W Stewart

Really not too clear on your setup and my answer may not be that helpful but from the limited information I'm able to get from this, you would either need a router routing between the two subnets or you would need to scale the subnet mask of both subnets back to a /16 so that they can communicate.

santaowns

You can connect them using a router.

paul78

IIRC - pfSense is similar to most SOHO firewall/routers. I recently looked at it when I needed to change my home network topology. But I ended up using a different solution since I found pfSense to be a bit too heavy for the hardware that I had.

@OP - you are going to need to give a bit more detail about your topology - I am assuming that you have 4 interfaces in pfSense device and 3 interfaces - 192.168.1.(you didn't mention size), 10.10.50.0/24, and 10.20.50.3/24.

Note that 10.20.50.3/24 is NOT a valid subnet address. I am guessing it's a typo and you meant to type - 10.20.50.0/24.

One of the things that I'm also assuming is that you are using the term forest to mean that weird term used in pfSense which I never did spend the time to decipher since forest is usually associated with Windows Active Directory and not a networking term.

Assuming that you have all the firewall rules setup between the subnets correctly, I believe that pfSense will always route subnets on directly connected interfaces.

If you are trying to use overlapping subnets in the same LAN however, you may need to configure proxy-arp but I do not know if pfSense supports it.