Practicum 2 Journal 10 - January 16, 2014 - Port Forwarding and Laptops

So today I was finally able to get port forwarding up and running. After like 2 days of trying to get it up and running I was able to get it going. When you use pfSense to be able to set a different external IP you would usually setup 1:1 addressing in the NAT section for each internal IP to use a specific external IP, then using the rules just set it so that say port 80 was forwarded to anywhere from 192.168.x.x which was supposed to work. On several websites it read that if you want to forward a port from an internal IP address for a server (for example) you had to use the rules section underneath the Firewall tab to forward them. What I found out is that when VLANs are involved you have to forward the ports using the normal Port Forwarding section on the NAT page to set them. So a day or two trying to figure that out, and I only had to do it the way everyone said not to do it. You use the default port forward section to open up the ports, but you have to set the destination to be the external IP that you wish to use from your Virtual IP list.

Ken also opened up the box of laptops that he got in from a client, so we set them up. They are the Lenovo Y510p, I was looking at getting that one for the course but it wasn't a fit for me and cost about $100 more than my Asus Vivobook that I picked up. The client company had picked four of them up for about $500 a piece, crazy cheap for these laptops.