[SOLVED]Help on turning a laptop on an AP with VitualBox or VMWare

zehle

Edit :
just tryied the same config with VMWare Workstation, and have the same issue… any help plz

hi all
hear is my config :
laptop with 1 etherned, and 1 wifi card.
ethenet is connected to my adsl router.

i want to trun it to an Access Point and manage traffic through pfSense.

1st step : enable hostednetwork (virtual wifi miniport)


netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=pfSense key=pfSensePWD
netsh wlan start hostednetwork

2nd step:sharing ethenet connection


open ethernet card properties
under "Sharing" tab - check box "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's internet connection"
Select under "Home networking connection"   - Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport"

at this point, i can connect to my wifi hostednetwork and have internet access.

IPs clients : 192.168.137.0/24

3rd step: installing and configuring pfSense with vitualbox


VitualBox is configured with 2 cards
- for WAN : a bridged card to ethernet
- for LAN : a bridged card to vitrual wifi miniport 

- WAN IP is automatic from dhcp
- setting LAN IP to 192.168.137.250 (in the same scope of hostednetwork)

Clients can ping pfSense LAN and have access to internet. But i cant manage traffic with pfSense.
Clients has these address config :


IP : 192.168.137.x
mask : 255.255.255.0
dns : 192.168.137.1 
gateway : 192.168.137.1
dhcp : 192.168.137.1

192.168.137.1 is the IP of wifi miniport

4th step : try

disabled internet sharing (2nd step)
reconfiguring wifi miniport IP to 192.168.137.1 with mask 255.255.255.0
enabled DHCP over LAN interface to force clients to use pfSense as default gateway
now clients IPs are like


IP : 192.168.137.x
mask : 255.255.255.0
dns : 192.168.137.250 
gateway : 192.168.137.250
dhcp : 192.168.137.250

192.168.137.250 is pfSense's IP.

now from pfSense, i can ping clients and internet. but from clients i can only ping local, havent internet access.

what wrong i did ?

thanks in advance for help

Zehle.

zehle

Solved using Microsoft loopback adapter and then disabling tcp/ip v4 and v6 over the wan

more details http://timita.org/wordpress/2011/07/29/protect-your-windows-laptop-with-pfsense-and-virtualbox-part-1-preamble/

thx for him.

sschaub

@zehle:

Solved using Microsoft loopback adapter and then disabling tcp/ip v4 and v6 over the wan

more details http://timita.org/wordpress/2011/07/29/protect-your-windows-laptop-with-pfsense-and-virtualbox-part-1-preamble/

thx for him.

I am trying to do a similar setup, and I don't see how the loopback adapter comes into play. I read the linked article, and it seems to be for someone who is running pfsense on a standalone laptop, not a laptop intended as a wireless AP… I would really appreciate if you could share additional details on your config to help me connect the dots.

sschaub

@sschaub:

@zehle:

Solved using Microsoft loopback adapter and then disabling tcp/ip v4 and v6 over the wan

I am trying to do a similar setup, and I don't see how the loopback adapter comes into play.

Ok, never mind. I think what is needed is to follow the instructions in the linked article to install the loopback adapter. Then, use internet connection sharing to share the loopback adapter with the Ad-hoc network.