LAN/WAN never work at the same time
-
It sounds like a VMWare configuration error. Which VMWare network have you connected to your WAN and which to your LAN? Have you configured VMWare to pass those to pfSense accordingly?
-
My WAN is eth0, set as a Other (VMNet0). Eth0 should be the onboard nic, so that's what I have it connected to.
The LAN is eth1, set as bridge.I think it might be an issue with the NIC's themselves or the router's having problems with them.
I decided to try simply getting online on the PC using each of the NIC's.
Originally, the onboard NIC worked. But when I switched the ethernet cord to the other NIC's, I kept getting 169.* ip's. Went back to the onboard NIC and got a 169.* ip as well.. -
What is the LAN interface bridged with - if it's bridged with the onboard NIC I'm not surprised you're having problems.
-
I've tried every setting there is in VMWare and it still doesn't work properly.
-
You failed to answer my question.
-
Which bridge do you mean?
In pfSense, it's em1, which is currently set as NAT in VMWare.. But I've tried Bridge, and Custom with VMnet1 and 2 with the same results..
-
Ok, let's do a little basic networking - does your VMWare host have 2 physical network interfaces?
-
Yes
-
Is one connected to your WAN and one to your LAN.
Are your WAN and LAN physically separate networks with different IP ranges?
-
WAN is connected to my router (192.168.1.)
LAN is connected to a netbook I'm using for testing (192.168.2.)I've actually managed to get it working.
I was using 3 NIC's, but when I disabled one and set WAN to VMnet0 and LAN to VMnet4 (For some reason, I can't assign the PCIE NIC to anything in the Virtual Network Editor) and pfSense is reporting a valid IP from the router and I'm able to access the gui from the netbook, but I can't route further with it.So I decided to test it going directly from the modem. And it failed to renew the IP. So I connected it back to the router, and it's once again assigning itself one of it's own LAN ips.
