G+_Nick Fusco Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Hello Padre, Long time listener! I appreciate everything you've been doing over the past few years on Know How I'm having an issue on my home network I hope you can help solve! I have a few problems with my setup as it is today. I am stuck behind a work router I cannot configure. The router is limited to 10/100, not an immediate concern, but will be in the future. The more pressing matter is that I cannot forward any ports to my home network, and I cannot access my Plex server/File server from outside the network, and I am having problems with Netplay on the Dolphin emulator. Heres a basic map of my network Work Network: Router-->Work network,computer & ip phone | Router--->Cisco SG300-10 Switch -->home computers/access points The router seems to split up into two networks, or VLANs, as I cannot see the work computer from the home network. My plan is the following--If my amateur networking experience serves me at all well. I have 2 servers I can use to solve this problem, if my solution makes sense, and if pFsense can solve this problem. I plan on setting up a VM of pFsense under VMWare Workstation 11 on my file/plex server. It has a Haswell Xeon quad core, 16GB of ram, 3Gig-E ports. The server is under a generally very light load, so I'm confident it can do it hardware wise, if I can run pFsense under vmware workstation. I know Vmware can pass thru network adapters in bridge mode, so I think this will work? This router will be handling all DHCP/DNS/Firewalling duties for my home network. My other server is a 1u supermicro chasis with an atom 330, 2gigs ram, also with 3 intel gig-e ports. I plan to use it as some sort of gateway between the work router and the new home router, and the internet It will do nothing but route traffic between the two networks, no NAT or firewalling. Would this work? Here is a map of how I think it will work. MODEM->WAN pFsense Router one, Atom 330 Lan --> Work Router -->Work Computer/Work phone | Lan 2 from 1st pfsense router --> 2nd pFsense router on VM -->Switch--> Computers/APs The PFsense router 1 will have firewalling and NAT disabled....allowing the other two routers, home and work, to handle all of that. Does this make sense, can this work? I just want my home network to not be stuck behind the work router. If my solution doesnt make sense than any alternatives would be great. #router #nomoredoublenat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Maybe I missed it, but how are the two networks connected now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Nick Fusco Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 Internet -->work router. That router separates the two networks somehow, ports 1-4 are wired on one vlan or subnet and the 5th port is on a different one. The 5th port goes from the router to my switch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Interesting. Unless you can configure the router with access to the public Internet or bypass it, I don't think there would be any way to setup services. It also seems odd that a company would let you plug in your own networking equipment into theirs, but it's not my place to tell you you can't. Does the company have a static public IP or dynamic? If it's static, they may have more than one and can route an extra to your port. It may be possible that their router supports PnP, but I kinda doubt it would be enabled nor would I know how to take advantage of that feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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