Installation problems
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I've been running pfSense for a long long time now. Since 1.0. I currently have an old system that has been running it for years. It started on 1.0 and is now on 2.0.2. It has 2 3com NICs for WAN and LAN. It has been locking up lately, so I've got a new system ready. It has a Broadcom NIC for LAN and 3com for WAN. The network setup is simple.. I have a static IP from Time Warner, so the WAN cable comes from the cable modem to the WAN port on the PC. The LAN port goes to a 24 port gigabit switch.
I installed pfSense 2.0.2 fresh on the new system and went page by page to duplicate all the settings from the old system. Yet, when I put the new system in place, I cannot get outside the firewall. I can ping the LAN IP and I can even ping the WAN gateway. Traceroute does not go past the LAN IP.
I've run out of ideas. I've got the config files from both systems. I'm hoping someone can look at them and tell me what it is that I'm doing wrong.
One last bit of information. The old system upgraded when going from 1.3 to 2.0. I did not install fresh. I don't know if that makes a difference or not.I've attached the old and new config files. The new file is from the new system. Old file is from the old system. I did try to manually edit the old file to change the LAN interface from txp0 to bge0.
config-pfsense.naebunny.net-new.txt
config-pfsense.naebunny.net-old.txt -
Perhaps your WAN interface is broken or incorrectly connected. Perhaps you don't have a valid DNS. Perhaps you don't have the correct gateway. … Please post output of pfSense shell command:```
/etc/rc.banner ; ifconfig ; ping -c 2 8.8.8.8 ; ping -c 2 www.google.com ; netstat -r -n -
Figured it out.
The output from both was identical.
Turns out the cable modedm needed to be power cycled. Once i did that traffic started flowing. Thanks for pointing me in the proper direction.