So i'm having port forwarding issues and I really don't understand what the issue is here. As a starter, I know the concept, i've done it in the past many times, but my pfsense making me think I'm crazy.
Here's my setup:
My WAN goes to a fiber optic modem. Connected to ISP through PPPOE. My local machine is under OPT2, which is a subnet that use VLAN tagging. I try to forward port 22552 to my machine at 192.168.10.200
PfSense auto setup a rule :
On my machine, I start socat :
On a VPS in the cloud, I connect to my public IP (validated with whatismyip.com and also my router interface status).
Nothing reaches my machine
Looking at the firwall logs, I see this:
The source address matches my VPS. The target address matches my public IP.
What's wrong here? I read the troubleshooting guide, read forums, asked an AI; nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here's my system :
