Android USB Tether via USB and Hyper-V
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Due to cirumstances beyond my control, I currently have no hardwired internet, having to go via my phone. ATM it's connected to one of my workstations and only that computer has internet access.
I run pfsense as a VM on Hyper-V. I was wondering, as the host is running Windows Server, it'll pick up the driver and deal with that complexity - if I share that connection with the pfsense VM, in theory it should be able to use the tether - my question though is how would I set this up in pfsense? What settings would I put on the interface?
Thanks
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DHCP as a regular WAN gateway, generally the phone should runs its own dhcp server to hand out leases.
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DHCP as a regular WAN gateway, generally the phone should runs its own dhcp server to hand out leases.
Hey, I tried that but pfsense was just getting an IP of 0.0.0.0, it didn't seem able to get an IP - but the windows host could fine. Any ideas as to why this is?
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I had the same issue but the major difference was I used a raspberry pi to create an ethernet bridge. If I hooked up the pi bridge directly to the switch all was good but trying to use it as a wan for pfsense just never worked at all.
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For the benefit of the thread I worked it out, in retrospect it made perfect sense, but there ya go.
So I setup an internal hyper-v network, which only the pfsense VM can access. Then I connected the android phone and shared it with the new LAN via internet sharing, this then let Windows create a DHCP server that pfsense could grab an IP from.
Phew!