Help in connecting Pfsense thru DMZ on Vigrin media fibre

Networking & Firewalls
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I have Virgin Media Fibre which does not have modem mode or port forwarding. There is a work around using DMZ the VM hub by disabling Firewall, DHCP and wireless connection. Ip address would be 192.168.0.X . When connect cable to pfsense , i do not receive a ip address for WAN. I manually tried inserting 192.168.0.X which worked and uptime. However i cannot connect to the internet. I believe it has something todo with NAT I think?

Any advice how i can get arround this or any other way i can connect VM Hub to pfsense.

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I would give PFSense a fixed ip address, do not use dhcp.

Under the wan interface settings , you need to untick

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Are you sure you can’t put it in modem mode ? If not it must be working as a router, it will surely have port forwarding. I have a Hub 3 that can be switched to modem mode. What device from Virgin do you have ?

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Thanks for reply, I had already installed it with the same instruction but no Joy. I tried again enabled DMZ gace it an Ip address 192.168.0.X disables wireless , disable firewall , but not DHCP. this worked , however i feel that this may double NAT Do you think so.

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I am on thie VM Hub 5X trial system which everyone are not happy. No modem Mode and cannot even port forward.There is a work around using DMZ but i am not receiving DHCP IP address. I am looking to place the pfsense after the VM Hub.

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Yep. DMZ in consumer or ISP routers is essentially the same thing as port forwarding, but instead of forwarding specific ports to specific local IP addresses, it forwards all ports to a single local IP address. So yes, NAT will still be active on your ISP router, and therefore it’s still the ISP router that gets a public IP via DHCP, and not your pfSense sitting behind the ISP router.

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Ok I see what you mean, the apt word is perhaps “trial”, modem mode doesn’t seem to be available. I wouldn’t waste anymore time, switch back to the Hub5 or earlier then wait until the FW gets an update.

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Hi, i had a customer that i had the vm hub, the “modem mode” is only available to business customers who purchase the 5 static ip business product, even the single IP business customers cannot get it.

Even then its not “true routing” (few people complaining about latency issues), they do something to the modem from their end… but even after they do i can still get to the modems 192.168.0.1 static ip address, dhcp get disabled on it, and i just manually assign one of the given static ip addrsss’s (on a /29 network) to my pfsense wan port connected to it

its a crazy way of doing it, will be moving the customer away once contract period is over