pfSense on Watchguard M270

shaker

It works fine for now. I didn't connect everything at the moment. But I am able to connect now, receiving IP and can organize the VLANs.
As next I need to configure pfsense. Will take some time. thanks guys

verbatim419

sorry to start the topic again.

I got an m270 and installed pfsense on it. I have inserted the hints for the switch but I can't insert the scripts, keeps throwing me an error No such file or directory when run comand chmod +x for sript
I new and sory for my english

stephenw10

You need to create those files.

How are you running those commands exactly?

verbatim419

@stephenw10 I downloaded one file from the system that has the extension "sh" and modified it with the script gave in previous posts, after which I transferred the file to the "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/" folder. After saving, I tried to start the shell both via the console and via the guia, but it threw out the above error. I writen script in notepad++. I'm a beginner when it comes to these things, so I apologize for some banalities.

stephenw10

Ok I assume you mean the switch configuration script as shown here?: https://forum.netgate.com/post/990474

You should create that file not add the code to a existing script.

In my setup I run that script using a shellcmd not via rc.d.

Steve

reiter_f

hi, i'm running the M270 too, it works when i switch the ports to forwarding "etherswitchcfg port# forwarding", but it loos the information after rebooting. after the reboot, the ports are disabled

psp

In my setup, I'm running the script @startup in Cron.

stephenw10

@reiter_f said in pfSense on Watchguard M270:

but it loos the information after rebooting. after the reboot, the ports are disabled

Yes the switch is reset to defaults at boot. You have to reconfigure it at boot each time. It's easiest to do that using a script.

reiter_f

@stephenw10
ha, there is no default config
file that you are able to write in? i'm a little bit confused of this strategy,. because there is no ROM storage or something like that..... do you know where the config ist writen temporaly?
how do i link the skript to the boot config, that it will run automatical at booting? ... the best would be to Clean all switch-configs before running the skript...

stephenw10

When the switch is powered on it comes up with all the ports disabled by default. That's how the switch chip has been configured in hardware.

There are several way to run a script. As discussed above I use a shellcmd to do it.

verbatim419

@stephenw10 I created a file with the script that was given before, but it gives me the above problem when I want to run the command. could you (if you are able) write how it is formed exactly and started, I looked for it on the forum but I didn't succeed. Thank you

stephenw10

It depends where the script is and what it's named. But here I would use:

[23.05-RELEASE][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: ls
.cshrc                     .k5login                   .profile                   .ssh                       backup                     switch_config.sh
.hushlogin                 .login                     .shrc                      .tcshrc                    realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg
[23.05-RELEASE][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: chmod +x switch_config.sh 
[23.05-RELEASE][admin@6100.stevew.lan]/root: ls
.cshrc                     .k5login                   .profile                   .ssh                       backup                     switch_config.sh
.hushlogin                 .login                     .shrc                      .tcshrc                    realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg

reiter_f

@stephenw10
thank you for the explanation, i will run the skript while booting

reiter_f

i have done the boot precedure alsow with cron, and run the sript with an crontab

*corntab -e

@reboot /usr/local/bin/setup_switch.sh*

an it runs :)
the most tricky thing was the commands of the vi-editor in the crontab :(

for all who arn't using vi-editor (like me):
(i ... for text input | ESC ... for changing to commandline | w: ... for write out | x: ... for exit the Vi-editor)

stephenw10

For mere mortals like most of us use the included EasyEditor ee.

Or for cron just install the cron package and use the gui.

reiter_f

@stephenw10
i tried arround now for a while, the skript with the WAN and the LAN on all ports works realy fine.

the thing with the vlan_mode DOT1Q and the diferent Vlans on the Ports does not.
i've tried it with the Skripft from aboth + the forwarding part, but i don't get an IP (DHCP) on the WAN, when i activate DHCP-server on the LAN - WAN will get the IP from the LAN-DHCP ??

the DHCPs on the LAN and OPT-Lans does not work.

wthat i've done wrong?

stephenw10

What does your script contain?

How are the interfaces configured?

reiter_f

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stephenw10

@reiter_f said in pfSense on Watchguard M270:

WAN (wan) -> ix0 -> v4/DHCP4: 192.168.2.102/24
LAN (lan) -> ix1.1 -> v4: 192.168.2.1/24

Whatever was configured at that point it's a subnet conflict between WAN and LAN.

reiter_f

i have found the mistake :) ...

i deleted all the interfaces and made them new ix1.### ( ### are now the same number as the Vlans from the skript )

now i can use all seperate Ports with seperate Vlans ...

(WAN-DHCP dosen't work but i think i'll start the config again with cloneing my disk from my hyper-V setup)