Complete noob here sorry if this is an easy question.

JKnott

Did you get any error message when you tried to ping google? Can you ping your router?

gtimmis07

Yes I can ping the pfsense tower.

gtimmis07

Error message for pinging google on my PC is:
Ping request could not find host google . com. Please check the name and try again.

SteveITS

@gtimmis07 ping 8.8.4.4 and if that works it’s likely a DNS issue.

gtimmis07

@steveits

Yes that worked. So it's a DNS issue then?

Gertjan

@gtimmis07 said in Complete noob here sorry if this is an easy question.:

I plug my ethernet cord into my wife's laptop and it gets internet instantly. However, when I plug it into my computer I get "Network: No internet"

If one PC works, and the other doesn't, then the person that owns the PC that doesn't should read this text :

Did you change the network properties - like setting a static IP / mask / DNS / Gateway ?
Didn't someone said somewhere in the past : " you shouldn't ! " (becomes it will fire back on you in the future).

Normally, when you hook up a PC to a network (read : a network that has a device that says it's the gateway, and that PC never 'spoke' to this gateway before, you get a question :
Is this a Private Network - or Public network ?
Chose wisely.
In either case, Internet access would work.
The absence of this question is a "bad sign".

Common question : what is your pfSense LAN setup ? (it should be 192.168.1.1/24 as this is set up by default).
The DHCP server on LAN is activated ?

On your PC, type :

ipconfig /all

What do you see ?
Does this checks out with the DHCP server settings ?

JKnott

@gtimmis07 said in Complete noob here sorry if this is an easy question.:

So it's a DNS issue then?

Appears so.

Gertjan

@gtimmis07 said in Complete noob here sorry if this is an easy question.:

Yes that worked. So it's a DNS issue then?

Do the DNS check.

If windows PC :

nslookup whoami.com

and the answer will be the answer.

iMAC, Linux, whatever else : do the dig thing.

SteveITS

@gtimmis07 Is the DNS Server (unbound) running?

gtimmis07

@steveits @JKnott @Gertjan @Tzvia

As I did before I will atempt to answer all the questions here:

Did I change anything like Static IP or mask or anything?
Not that I can think of other than the IP address to 192.168.1.101 to try to get it to match ( I'm sure this is a rookie mistake).

192.168.1.1/24?
No I'm seeing 192.168.1.101/24

When I typed in Whoami on CMD:

Server: pfSense.home.arpa
Address: 192.168.1.101

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to pfSense.home.arpa timed-out

When I typed in
IPconfig /all

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home.arpa
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) I211 Gigabit Network Connection
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 70-85-C2-5B-0F-B4
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::252b:f3ad:6b0d:e587%14(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.109(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, April 27, 2021 7:16:58 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9:16:57 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::21b:21ff:fecf:c8f1%14
192.168.1.101
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 342918594
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-26-50-3E-0F-70-85-C2-5B-0F-B4
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
Connection-specific DNS Suffix Search List :
home.arpa

Thank you!

Tzvia

I keep re-reading your first post, wife gets internet. It states you get IP, you can (sometimes) get into PFSense GUI. So not a speed/duplex. Thought wife's pc was DHCP, yours static, wrong DNS maybe? Wrong gateway? No, you reset your network settings (DHCP). Wife's PC works- maybe set manually with internet DNS so it works, but PFSense not set correctly for DNS or DNS/UNBOUND not working? Goes to neighbor's house, doesn't work (neighbor DHCP, DNS pointing to PFSense and DNS on it still not working?) Would be interesting to see how the wife's computer is set; (static or dhcp with manually set internet DNS servers...?).
Then this thought dawns on me. You are using a four port Intel nic. one is WAN, one is LAN, and the others would be OTHER NETWORKS if configured as such OR more likely non functional (not configured). Four ports does not a switch make. You need to use the same port that worked with your wife's computer; the other ports would only be functional if configured and would be different networks with their own DHCP.
How is the wife's computer configured...

gtimmis07

@tzvia
I will get your her config later.

I am using the same port that my wife's computer was plugged into, at this moment I only have one port for wan and one port for lan ( igb0 is wan and igb1 is lan) all others are not setup

JKnott

@gtimmis07

It appears you're in need of a cheap switch.

gtimmis07

@jknott @Gertjan @SteveITS @Tzvia

I will purchase a switch soon and see if that fixes my problem, I will get her laptop out and see what her config is also.

Thank you guys!

JKnott

@gtimmis07

The only reason I suggested a switch was so you could have both computers connected at the same time.

AKEGEC

@gtimmis07 this probs could be anything,
For your pc, login as admin and try this:
Open command cmd.exe run as admin and type:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew

netsh winsock reset
netsh interface ipv4 reset
netsh interface ipv6 reset
netsh interface ip delete destinationcache
netsh winsock reset catalog

For your pfsense, please take your time to watch this video guide fromYoutuber Knowledge Power:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv1qTYR3faQ

gtimmis07

@akegec

I did all the cmd commands and restarted my computer. Still no internet on it though. 3 1/2 video is a but much for me right now but I will sit down and watch it later.

AKEGEC

@gtimmis07 if your pfsense device has more nic and you have only 2 pc, then I suggest don't buy any switcher. But instead use those nic as interfaces Wan, Lan, Opt1, Opt2.

About pfsense video guide, that video has helped more that 8000 pfsense users. Also when you watch that 3.5 hours pfsense guide video, please take a note of timestamp. For example Disabling IPv6 on 41:21 timestamp.

Why you must disable IPv6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Jl4t43ug

Gertjan

@akegec said in Complete noob here sorry if this is an easy question.:

Why you must disable IPv6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Jl4t43ug

Must ?
What about : make IPv6 work, and most probably better as any available local ISP can offer you : Configuring IPv6 Through A Tunnel Broker Service It's a close to set it and forget it operation.

"Why to make IPv6 work" isn't really a question. Will it be this year that there will be more IPv6 traffic as IPv4 ? On LAN's, most devices prefer IPv6 over IPv4 (even if the main gateway DNS doesn't support it.

JKnott

@akegec said in Complete noob here sorry if this is an easy question.:

Why you must disable IPv6

Nonsense. That is head in the sand stupidity. The world is moving to IPv6. My ISP has provided it for over 5 years and I was running it for 6 more via a tunnel. IPv4 hasn't been adequate since the day it became necessary to use NAT to get around the address shortage. Also, because of that shortage there are many people stuck behind carrier grade NAT, which means they can't access their own networks from elsewhere.