My pfsense router is not seeing the internet after switching to it with my isp
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Good evening everyone,
I've got an issue with a new pfsense router I'm setting up in my apartment and I'm wondering if you might be able to and interested in giving me a hand with an issue I'm having.
I have ESXi running on one of my servers, and a vm of pfsense on that.
My ISP locks each apartment down to one MAC address per apartment, so this evening I gave them a call and changed the MAC address to the one on the dedicated NIC I'll be using for my WAN interface.
I set up pfsense so it's all up and running and visible on the LAN, however for some reason I can't figure out, It won't connect to the WAN.
If you have any ideas, it would be greatly
appreciated!Here's the breakdown of the setup:
My isp jack is plugged into a dedicated single port 1gig NIC with the MAC ending in 63:e3.
I have ESXi set with only pfsense using that NIC.
In the virtual switch, I made sure the mac address is the same one that ends in 63:e3
In pfsense, I set it up to be the gateway with the wan port being the NIC that ends in 63:e3, and made sure to set the MAC address in pfsense to 63:e3.
On a completely different NIC, I set up the lan.
Pfsense boots, acts normal, can manage everything on the lan, but can't connect to the WAN.
I can see pfsense receives one packet from my isp, as pfsense keeps sending more and more.I have tried everything I can think of however it still won't connect, and my isp is absolute that it's not on their end.
Thank you so much for you time!
Samuel