Change LAN IP, Can't Ping Gateway
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I have been working on my system and I have stumbled upon a problem I haven't noticed before. I am using a test system to work on configurations before I role them out. I reinstalled and I wanted to change my LAN ip range to 192.168.2.x. So I did this through the consle, no problems. I am able to log back into pfsense at 192.168.2.1 and everything seems normal. However I am not able to ping 192.168.2.1. If I disable the firewall in pfsense, I can ping. If I change the interface back to 192.168.1.x, I can ping.
Shouldn't changing interface automatically update the firewall rules for the new interface ip? I worked with the rules to try and allow the 192.168.2.x subnet, but no luck on the ping. I have setup multiple installations under different subnets, it has just been a while. Thanks for any consideration.
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I always change the default LAN subnet and never had any issue, this works just out of the box with the default Firewall Rules.
Make sure your Client get a new IP address out of the DHCP pool after the change, to speed this up I just disable and enable the client network adapter.-Rico
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That has been my experience in the past as well. It has never been an issue.
I can confirm we are getting the new ip address, since I can login to the pfsense interface with the new address. This is how I disabled the firewall to check if it corrected the problem. I think I may try a complete wipe of the hdd and reinstall from scratch again and see if there is any difference. From the lack of responses, I assume this is not a common issue.
