pFsense does not respond, can't log in
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I have 2.6 installed on a Lenovo tower desktop, dual Intel Nics, 1 for WAN 1 for LAN with 3 VLANS. I had my switch set up for Layer 2 VLANs, everything was working fine.
I decided to try pfblockerNG devel, got it work just fine. Then I decided to put a device that was on VLAN 5 on VLAN 6, restarted device and then it would not grab an IP even though others on VLAN6 would. I restarted switch and then pfsense starts to load very slow, I could not click around in the setup. Rebooted, same thing. Now, I can't even log into the box from any device that has access.
What did I do wrong? I'm back to my non-pfsense set up.
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Sounds like the switch started blocking. Perhaps you have a loop or maybe the MAC address moving to a different VLAN triggered something.
Were you able to connect out from the pfSense console to anything?
Steve
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@stephenw10 I had to connect via console and disable the firewall, I could then get in. I could not figure out what was causing it, the firewalls appeared to be fine. I ended up starting fresh since it's a box I'm playing with. I want to order an appliance from Netgate but want to first make sure this can do everything I want it to.
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Hmm, OK, well if disabling the firewall allowed access again I would first check the firewall logs for blocked traffic. Also the pfBlocker alerts since you had that installed.
With pf enabled there are a few other things that might prevent access like sshguard (check the sshguard table) or connections being redirceted incorrectly.
None of that would prevent dhcp working though. If the dhcp server was enabled on VLAN 6 a host connected to it should always be able to connect to it.Steve
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@stephenw10 For anyone interested, I believe that it was my fault, I checked the BOGON options for one of my VLANs.
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Hmm, the BOGONs option by itself should not have blocked it unless the subnet you were using is outside the usual RFC1918 private subnets. The 'block private subnets' option would have of course.
