PfSense 'modem' -> pfsense 'router(s)', would this work?

stephenw10

I can't think why you'd ever want to run a PCI card that isn't in a PCI slot. Weird! Perhaps it's to allow the on-board router to be setup before it's send out to a customer?

Good to get a second positive review of it though.

Happy New Year!

Steve

jonesr

Hi all

A thousand apologies, I had forgotten all about this. "Life happened" and things like job hunting took priority. Also my ISP kept insisting that the network upgrade that would change my static IPs would happen "very soon" and I was waiting for that to fiddle again, which still hasn't happened. Excuses aside, sorry it has taken five months to post back.

Here are the screenshots for the PCI ADSL modem interface. I did my best to capture as much useful information as I could but please note that the steps noted along with the screenshots refer to what I clicked on, not what is visible at the time, due to the way I captured it. I hope this helps and provides some answers. What I have configured works for me, a great deal of the settings here I imagine are only relevant if you use the "Ethernet" option mentioned previously. Once configured the jumpers on the card should be set to "PCI" mode for use with pfSense so anything you set on the card like NAT or firewalling may well conflict with or be ignored by pfSense.

As far as the pfSense side goes I will do my best to write up what I have done but the majority of it is about routing multiple public IPs. The actual modem side is relatively easy due to my ISP, all I do is set my WAN to "static". Other users may need to research PPPoE or other WAN configurations, for BE (UK ISP) users try this - https://www.bethere.co.uk/web/beportal/techguides_other_modems_with_Be_broadband

stephenw10, and any others still interested in this, this may all be a little late as many UK ISPs offer FTTx, which I understand requires a BT VDSL modem no matter who your ISP is. Mine has not yet upgraded, but if you have upgraded your connection to FTTx to the best of my knowledge NONE OF THIS IS ANY GOOD TO YOU. But to those still on standard ADSL please consider whether you wish to invest the ~£50 on the modem if you too may upgrade to FTTx.

–-Sorry, the file is 2MB, maximum size for attachments per file is 250KB. Until I come up with a better solution please PM me for the screenshots, I will email them if you send me your address.