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edgeman
New Member
January 25, 2016
Question

Issue with VIP

  • January 25, 2016
  • 12 replies
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Hi Everyone,

 

I have a problem that someone may be able to help me with / point me in the right direction. I come from a Sonicwall background so this may just be terminology that is throwing me :)

 

I've searched the forum and tried a few things but can't get past my VIP issue, namely that the port 25 VIP that I set up is not sent on to the mail server.

 

I have set up a VIP, a policy, according to the cookbook, on my 60C (4.0) with an external ip of 0.0.0.0 (it's dynamic / dhcp delivered), internal IP of my mail server (private net), port forwarding on and TCP port 25 specified in the external and map to port fields.

 

My policy has the source interface as wan1, source address "all", destination interface of internal and destination address my VIP. Schedule is always, service is SMTP and Action is ACCEPT (and no NAT).

 

Problem is nothing gets through. I can telnet from the firewall (SSH) to the mail server on port 25, but when I try it from an external internet host I see lots of "wan 1 in" records (diag sniffer packet any "tcp and dst port 25" 4) but nothing ever out to the mail server.

 

The mail server is on the same subnet as the firewall's internal interface, and the firewall is running in NAT mode. I can ping from the mail server to the external internet test host, so connectivity seems to be fine.

 

Thoughts?

 

Thanks!

 

    12 replies

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    January 25, 2016

    hi,

     

    and welcome to the forums.

    At first glance your setup looks correct.

    In the policy, do you really use the VIP object?

    What if..you disable port forwarding, does it work then? An additional benefit of this is that you can now ping the server through the VIP (no portless ICMP through port-forwarding VIPs).

     

    Which firmware are you using - main is 4.0, MR is ?, patch ?  (or just the build #).

    rwpatterson
    New Member
    January 25, 2016

    Beware, you can only remove the port forwarding if no other VIP definitions are using that same external IP (0.0.0.0 in this instance).

    Ralph1973
    New Member
    January 25, 2016

    Hi, can it be that your isp is blocking smtp ? Some providers do that, to prevent you run your own mailserver. Test it with a different port, since your setup looks correct.

     

    Ralph

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