[pfSense] Block Rule doesnt work

Jürgen Echter j.echter at echter-kuechen-elektro.de
Fri Jan 27 09:36:32 EST 2012


Am 25.01.2012 20:13, schrieb David Burgess:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Moshe Katz<moshe at ymkatz.net>  wrote:
>
>> He said he can access web pages so it's not even rejecting TCP.
>
> Thanks. I missed that.
>
> Jürgen, are you using a transparent proxy, like squid? I believe this
> will bypass your firewall rules for ports and interfaces that it
> listens on.
>
> db
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hi,

yes it seems that transparent squid was causing this problem.

would it be a good idea to use 'Do not forward traffic to Private 
Address Space (RFC 1918) destination through the proxy server but 
directly through the firewall.' in the settings?

greets and thanks

juergen


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