Help installing to from a usb cf card on an acer aspire 5517

antleo

yep nano+vga
my windows pc it says connectd with internet access but then when i go into google chrome nothing loads. so i hit diagnose connection issues or whatever and got your dns server may not be connecting properly or something like that. basically We have the dsl line coming out from the wall to the modem than a cat6 ethernet cable up to the acer laptop running pfsense then a cat5e ethernet cable going to my hp desktop.
Im not really sure what else is relavent but i used this video to set it up

http://youtu.be/BBE-Fr7P_8I

stephenw10

Ok so Windows thinks DNS is not working.
From the windows box can you ping google.com? Can you ping 8.8.8.8? If you can ping IP addresses but not URLs that proves DNS is not working.
Try the same from the pfSense console, can you ping from there?
Is the WAN address of your pfSense a private IP address received from the modem? If it is it MUST be in a different subnet to the LAN.

Steve

antleo

I can ping to my ip but no urls. And how do I do this from the pfsense console?

how do you change subets?

stephenw10

On the laptop at the console enter option 8 for a command shell. At the prompt you can ping:

[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.fire.box]/root(1): ping google.com
PING google.com (173.194.34.66): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 173.194.34.66: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=11.349 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.34.66: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=11.655 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.34.66: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=11.551 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 11.349/11.518/11.655/0.127 ms
[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.fire.box]/root(2): ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=20.243 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=19.750 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=20.872 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 19.750/20.288/20.872/0.459 ms

You can assign a new IP to your LAN from the menu or from the web dashboard but you only need to do this if there is a clash.
What are your WAN and LAN IP addresses?

Steve

antleo

wan is 192.168.1.6
lan is 192.168.1.1

running ping from the modual right now. What should l look for and if i need to change my ip what should i change it to?

cmb

You can't have WAN and LAN in the same subnet, make one or the other different.

antleo

How do I Change that?

stephenw10

At the console menu on the laptop choose option 2, Set interface(s) IP address.
Choose the LAN interface and set it to some other subnet, 192.168.100.1 for example. Use the suggested subnet and dhcp options.
You will have to either renew the dhcp leases on any LAN side clients manually or disconnect/reconnect them to make it happen.

Steve

wallabybob

@antleo:

How do I Change that?

Probably the more interesting question is "what do I change it to?" and to answer that question we will need to know a bit more about your configuration.

Steve's suggestion about reconfiguring the LAN interface is a good one. But it is not clear from the information you have given, what a suitable configuration for the WAN interface is.

Did you assign the WAN interface the fixed address 192.168.1.1 or does it get that address by DHCP?
Is the ADSL modem a modem only or a modem/router combination acting as a router?

The obvious problem with your configuration is that the WAN and LAN interfaces are almost certainly in the same "subnet" and consequently when your Windows system attempts to connect to the pfSense web GUI the response might be sent over the LAN interface (good!) or the WAN interface (bad!). The configuration needs to be changed so the two interfaces are in different subnets, but the WAN interface needs to be configured correctly for conversation with the modem. Since we don't know enough about the modem we don't yet know how the WAN interface should be configured.

Once you have followed Stev's suggestion you should be able to connect to the pfSense web GUI from your Windows system and make any necessary configuration changes from there.

antleo

Modem and router. I don't know much about networking but I hope to learn.

It was a dhcp thing

wallabybob

@antleo:

Modem and router. I don't know much about networking but I hope to learn.

OK, just changing the LAN interface IP as Steve suggested will probably be enough.

antleo

I still can't connect on the windows machine and the ipv4 and ipv6 still say no network access and I get the little caution triangle in the windows LAN connected thing in the bottom right corner

stephenw10

There are three things (at least!) that could be wrong here so lets try to diagnose them.
1. Your lan clients are not connecting to the pfSense box.
Can you connect to the pfSense web interface? Can you ping the pfSense box from one of the clients? Are they receiving the correct IP address, subnet mask and gateway?
2. Your pfSense box is not connecting to the modem correctly.
From the pfSense console can you ping the modem? Can you ping a web address?
3. The pfSense machine is not routing traffic for some reason.
Is there anything in the firewall log? This would indicate that you don't have the correct firewall rules in place. Unlikely since the default rule should be fine. Routing could be broken because of a subnet conflict, as you had before, or NAT is switched off.

The more information we have to work with the quicker this will be so if you post the output of 'ifconfig' or some screebshots that will help. :)

Steve

antleo

Nat is on on the router could that be contributing? I have no access at all to anything on my windows machine. I haven't checked the firewall log but I will tomorrow I can ping from the presence box and it works fine. I chose 24 bit for both if wan and LAN if that has anything to do with it. Likei said I am a total newb to this kind of thing so I am not really sure what else you need. Tell me and I'll find it.

stephenw10

Ah OK. So the test has failed at part 1.
Firstly, is the client actually connecting to pfSense correctly on a hardware level? If you have it directly connected you may need to use a crossover cable or insert a switch. Do you have lights on the ethernet cards/ switch?
Since you are running in VM you should be to copy and paste the output of 'ifconfig' from the console, please do. E.g.

[2.0.1-RELEASE][root@pfsense.fire.box]/root(3): ifconfig
em0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic>ether 00:90:7f:31:4b:f0
        inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::290:7fff:fe31:4bf0%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
em1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=9b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum>ether 00:90:7f:31:4b:ee
        inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
        inet6 fe80::290:7fff:fe31:4bee%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
        nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active</full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

Otherwise it's likely the dhcp server is not running or misconfigured. Try running:

clog /var/log/dhcpd.log

You should see requests and acknowledgements for IP addresses on the LAN.

Steve

antleo

All the nics have the led on but the one from the console to my windows machine just flashes

stephenw10

So you have the windows machine connected directly to the laptop with pfSense on it?
At the moment there seems to be some doubt about the LAN connection at the hardware level. If you can give us the output of ifconfig we can be sure.
It's possible that neither end of the connection supports auto-mdix in which case you will need to use a cross-over cable or s switch.

Steve

antleo

How do I get the if confit output? And I had it working at some point were I could get to the Webgui with strait patch cables and such so?

stephenw10

Sorry I got confused between threads. You are not running pfSense in a vm so you can't copy and paste from the console.
To run ifconfig go to the console menu select option 8, shell. Then type 'ifconfig' at the command prompt. Confirm that your lan interface is UP and the media status is autodetect.

Steve