Problem with Interface Bridges

rakhsh

Hi everyone!
Here is my situation:
I have a DGS-1210-10P switch that have the following VLANs:

vlan 10 –-> LAN
vlan 20 ---> WAN

I have my PC connected to the trunk port. Installed windows 10, Hyper-V and a pfSense VM with following setup:

VM has 5 NICs:
hn0 ----> internal with no vlan tagging
hn1 ----> external with vlan identification 10
hn2 ----> external with vlan identification 20
hn3 ----> internal with vlan identification 99
hn4 ----> internal with vlan identification 90 (just a place holder when creating bridge)

I want to bridge hn0 and hn1 as LAN so my PC (vm host) can communicate easily with my rest of network.
In my first attempts I lost connectivity to my pfsense box so I have installed another VM with windows 10 with internal interface on vlan 99.
So I can configure the pfsense via a separate port.

I have installed latest pfsense (pfSense-CE-2.4.2-RELEASE-amd64) with default options. I can connect to the WAN (PPPOE) and the host PC can ping internet and pfsense box just fine.
The Interfaces are:
LAN -----> hn0 with DHCP enabled and IP range of 192.168.1.1
WAN ----> hn2 PPPOE connection
OPT1 ---> hn1 I have just enabled the interface with IP configuration of none
OPT2 --->hn4 I have just enabled the interface with IP configuration of none
OPT3 ---> hn3 with DHCP enabled and IP range of 192.168.2.1

After creating a * allow rule in firewall on OPT3 I can ping pfsense on windows 10 VM.
So I connected to pfsense box via 192.168.2.1 on my windows 10 VM and first I have toggled the values of net.link.bridge.pfil_member and net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge under System > Advanced on the System Tunables tab.

I have restarted pfsense to make sure of settings effect.

I have created a bridge with OPT1 and OPT2 as members.
After that under interfaces I changed to the following:
LAN ----> BRIDGE0
WAN ---> no change
OPT1 ---> no change
OPT2 ---> hn0
OPT3---> no change

After hitting save I lost connectivity from the Host PC but still can connect from the windows 10 VM. I don't know what to do. Please help.

rakhsh

Is it my bad English or what?

rakhsh

If you help me in any way, it would be appreciated.

johnpoz

In what scenario would you need/want to create a bridge on a vm? Zero sense..