Home network setup with SG-3100
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So I’m a total networking noob. How exactly do I setup the pfsense appliance (SG3100) on my home cable internet network and make it work with my eero pro WiFi? I’m so lost!
I did successfully connect my cable modem to the WAN port and then one of the LAN ports to my eero pro router... but the clients have no internet. Not sure what’s causing that? I haven’t changed any of the settings since the initial wizard...
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have you DHCP active and got a ip adress on your internal client?
has your pfsense a public ip on the wan interface? -
What you want to aim for is having the SG-3100 as the only router on your network. That means having your cable device be a modem only (it may already be that) passing a public IP to the SG-3100 WAN directly. And it means having the Eero device(s) act as wifi access points only. No NAT, no routing there, just layer 2 passing clients to the SG-3100 LAN.
Steve
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I understand that. Thanks.
Although I accidentally changed the IP subnet in the setup wizard and can no longer access the 192.168.1.1 login for pfsense.... I thought I set it to 192.168.2.1 but I can’t log in.
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Connect to the serial console: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-3100/connect-to-console.html
From the console menu you will see what the current LAN IP is. But you can also set it to whatever you need from there and it will update the dhcp range at the same time.
Steve
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Got it figured out!!
Resetting my cable modem fixed the issue. I guess the pfsense SG-3100 wasn’t getting an IP from my ISP... but resetting it worked. Thanks!!!
