Internal gateway

MrGlasspoole

After all this years with network stuff at home i still have problems understanding what the gateway does.

It was always like that, that the router/modem is the gateway.
But i have pfSense running in Hyper-V and setting pfSense as gateway is a problem.
If i have to reboot Hyper-V then i can't access it anymore because there is the "Network Location Awareness Service".
Since pfSense is not running when Hyper-V starts, the NIC is set to public and you can't access the machine anymore trough remote desktop.

So at social.technet.microsoft.com somebody said to set a network device as gateway.

Does that mean the default gateway does not need to be pfsense/router?
Can you set all the PCs, Tabs, Phones, TVs, access points to something else?

doktornotor

You can set the location to private via GPO
You can run a scheduled task that to


net stop nlasvc /yes

a couple of minutes after boot, when the pfSense VM is up and running.

Both of the above a whole lot better than messing with gateways.

MrGlasspoole

Ok, then i have to figure out how to do it in Powershell.
But

net stop nlasvc /yes

only stops the service? I have to restart it after that?

So the gateway for all devices in the LAN should be pfSense?

doktornotor

No, there is no need to restart it, it will immediately restart itself on its own.