@NetworkTechie said in Installing on Protectli V1610: No network after first boot, and read only console.:
But after rebooting from setup into the freshly installed instance of PFsense on the NVMe, the IP will be unreachable a
While the console output, still attached and active, that a reboot was in progress, the USB drive from which you installed pfSense, was removed, right ?
What 'IP' is unreachable ?
You mean the LAN interface ?
@NetworkTechie said in Installing on Protectli V1610: No network after first boot, and read only console.:
and will display a setup webpage on other hosts on the network, during the setup.
A setup page ? What does it show ?
@NetworkTechie said in Installing on Protectli V1610: No network after first boot, and read only console.:
No matter if i put both the WAN and LAN interface on DHCP, or set a static IP address.
Valid for 'everybody' :
WAN == dhcpc or DHCP - the DHCP client process will request a lease-WAN-IP for you from somewhere 'upstream'.
LAN : set it to static IP address like 1992.168.1.1 /24 or 255.255.255.0 and set up a DHCP - server, this time - a pool from 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.200
Done.
For experts : dozens of (far) less common setups are possible.
Although :
dhcp client on LAN ? Never saw that one before.
dhcp server in WAN ? same thing.
@NetworkTechie said in Installing on Protectli V1610: No network after first boot, and read only console.:
Now the Protectli V1610 does have a USB-C console port, as well as a HDMI port, and both show the console output for PFsense. But the console cannot be interacted with, and seems to be logging only.
When you install pfSense, what version ? their might be a choice to make :
Serial console ?
or
Video+keyboard console ?
It's possible that at first the BIOS uses the serial console - and then later on, while booting, pfSense uses the video mode.
Or the other way around.
@NetworkTechie said in Installing on Protectli V1610: No network after first boot, and read only console.:
igc4: link state changed to UP
igc0: link state changed to UP
igc0: link state changed to DOWN
What's connected to igc0 ? If it's the LAN - connect this port to a switch, and connect all your LAN devices (PC's AP's printers etc etc etc to this switch). You really want to be sure the LAN 'never' goes down.
Same thing for the WAN btw, connect it to an upstream 'other (ISP ?) router or modem etc.
@NetworkTechie said in Installing on Protectli V1610: No network after first boot, and read only console.:
Or will pfSense CE not run at all on this hardware?
edit : Oh, wait, didn't saw the other replies. Sorry if I lost the subject.
I never saw a "Protectli " device IRL but they are quiet known. Check their web site again : I'll bet they say that their devices support 'pfSense' (whatever version).