Convert pfSense into a Routing Only Platform
brief, General, pfSense
If you want to use pfSense just as a router to connect for example two different internal subnets, you need to disable all packet filtering as follows.
Go to
System –> Advanced –> Firewall & NAT
and scroll down to the Advanced options.
Check Disable Firewall
This converts pfSense into a routing only platform!
This will also turn off NAT!
![](https://blog.matrixpost.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/pfSense_router_002-1024x489.png)
If you still want to filter the traffic between both internal subnet, you can also just disable NAT and not the firewall rules as follow.
Firewall –> NAT –> Outbound –> Disable Outbound NAT rule generation
![](https://blog.matrixpost.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/disable_nat-1024x368.png)
Links
Disable Firewall
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/config/advanced-firewall-nat.html#disable-firewall
Disabling Outbound NAT
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/nat/outbound.html#nat-disable-outbound