Help with setting up static IP for WAN
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I have purchased a static IP address from my ISP and I'm trying to set it up. They have me the following information.
IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
Gateway/router IP:xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
Subnet: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
DNS1: xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
DNS1: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxSo I went into the interface settings on my pfsense VM and tried to update the settings.
Problem is when I change the interface configuration type to static instead of DHCP i only get the option to input an IP address, an upstream gateway, and a subnet mask (1-32) not the subnet IP. And when I try to save the settings it says that the IP address is not available in the subnet associated with the WAN interface.
Where do I put in the subnet? Or is there some step I'm missing?
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@joe_papa said in Help with setting up static IP for WAN:
subnet mask (1-32) not the subnet IP
The subnet would be some 255.255.255.0 sort of address depending on the mask which is like /30 or /24 etc..
Convert what subnet mask they gave you to the cidr format..
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/network/cidr.html
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@johnpoz Ahh. Thank you so much. It's amazing how little some service techs actually understand. That perfectly solved my problem.