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Hi, I wanted to know if this was possible? We currently have an issue with 1 of our online services and it turns out to be a routing issue between Virgin and BT. The server seems to create 2 connections and when it is one the first connection it is fine, but the 2nd connection just grinds uploads to a snails pace. We found that if we proxy through a German server this company set up for us we can get the service perfectly fine. I wondered if it was possible to get PA to do this just for this one specific URL? ... View more

Hi there, I am trying to deploy a network that is connected directly to my PA box over a wifi connector and I am hitting some stumbling blocks. I wondered if someone might be able to offer any advise. The scenoria is this. I have an office that is connected to my office via a wifi transmitter. These wifi use the 172.16.5.x range. There is to be a firewall on the other end of this connection for the wifi to plug into (pfsense). On the Firewall on the other end I have 2 interfaces. A Lan and the wifi connector (it has an address on the wifi range). I have set the wifi up as the WAN interface and it's gateway as the wifi interface IP on the PA box. Traffic between those 2 seems to flow ok. Now, the Local LAN. If I setup a NAT rule on the PA box, or in this case incorporate it into an existing rule, that says all traffic from the LAN within my PA network goes out through our external IP (which is an interface on the PA box). That works fine for my local LAN that is attached directly to the PA network. But for this other office, when I try that the traffic shows and shows as allowed out, but always incomplete. I also tried setting up a static route on the Virtual router pointing to the wifi WAN card on the pfsense box as it's next hop, but still traffic shows incomplete and I never get any pages appear on the other end (apart from local DNS traffic, I have a DNS forwarder for my domain pointing to my domain controller and all DNS requests within my domain work ok via that) I have a policy based re-direct for internal LAN that says if going to that wificonnected office, then go over the wifi transmitter. That allows me to get onto it from where I am sitting. The ideal scenario would be that the network on this wifi connected office is an extention of the private LAN network (10.10.0.0/16) that I have in my main office. But if on the pfsense side I try tell it to use 10.10.1.3 (which is what all the LAN pc's within the main office use) as it's gateway, which I have to then set the LAN on the other side as /16 to allow this, I think lose connection with the firewall. If I try a completely separate network range then all traffic appears to come from the wifi connector on the wifi connected offices WAN card and again, traffic shows as incomplete. I know this is not strictly a PA issue, but if anyone could offer any suggestions it would be appreciated. ... View more