Cannot Access WebConfigurator

[BrianMcG]

@jarhead I thought the difference between a Private network and an Internal network in Hyper-V was that a Private network enabled the VMs inside a Host to communicate with each other, and that an Internal network included the Host as well. That's why I did what I did. But I'll give it a go and see what happens.

You haven't answered my point about how does a Network Adapter set to DHCP know which DHCP Server to listen to.

[BrianMcG]

@jarhead Hmmm.... Tried that. The only difference it made was, as suspected, FILE-SERVER could no-longer see the INTERNAL Virtual Switch. So it cannot connect to the INTERNAL Network as required.

I'm wondering whether the problem it with my EXTERNAL Virtual Switch. You see, I initially gave my Network Adapter on the motherboard of FILE-SERVER (you know the real one), the IP Address on 192.168.0.2. When I created the EXTERNAL Virtual Switch in Hyper-V and connected it to that Network Adapter, the EXTERNAL Virtual Switch adopted 192.168.0.2 as its IP Address - leaving the Network Adapter without an IP Address. (I have allowed the Management Operating System to use the Network Adapter so that I still have some Internet connectivity. I'll remove it when everything else is going.

But then, when I was specifying the IP Addresses for pfSense, I gave its WAN connection the SAME IP Address of 192.168.0.2. Should THIS have a different IP on the EXTERNAL Network - 192.168.0.5 perhaps? I'll Give that a go.

[Jarhead]

@brianmcg said in Cannot Access WebConfigurator:

@jarhead I thought the difference between a Private network and an Internal network in Hyper-V was that a Private network enabled the VMs inside a Host to communicate with each other, and that an Internal network included the Host as well. That's why I did what I did. But I'll give it a go and see what happens.

You haven't answered my point about how does a Network Adapter set to DHCP know which DHCP Server to listen to.

My mistake, I thought you were only connecting VM's. You're correct in what you're thinking about the 2 switches, internal puts you on the hosts network, private is a separate network. There's no way for a pc to know which dhcp server to connect to, that's why you should never have more than one.

[Jarhead]

@brianmcg said in Cannot Access WebConfigurator:

@jarhead Hmmm.... Tried that. The only difference it made was, as suspected, FILE-SERVER could no-longer see the INTERNAL Virtual Switch. So it cannot connect to the INTERNAL Network as required.

I'm wondering whether the problem it with my EXTERNAL Virtual Switch. You see, I initially gave my Network Adapter on the motherboard of FILE-SERVER (you know the real one), the IP Address on 192.168.0.2. When I created the EXTERNAL Virtual Switch in Hyper-V and connected it to that Network Adapter, the EXTERNAL Virtual Switch adopted 192.168.0.2 as its IP Address - leaving the Network Adapter without an IP Address. (I have allowed the Management Operating System to use the Network Adapter so that I still have some Internet connectivity. I'll remove it when everything else is going.

But then, when I was specifying the IP Addresses for pfSense, I gave its WAN connection the SAME IP Address of 192.168.0.2. Should THIS have a different IP on the EXTERNAL Network - 192.168.0.5 perhaps? I'll Give that a go.

But earlier you said you had internet access, so the wan should be good.
Just go into pfSense again, select option 7 to ping a host and try to ping google or another website. If it's good, the wan is good.

Can you draw out exactly how you have everything connected? Just re-read this thread (again ) and you were questioning how the server is separate from the wan. The wan of pfSense is connected to the external switch, that means it goes to a physical port. That port is connected to your internet only, correct?

[BrianMcG]

@jarhead I have just deleted and re-built pfSense and both Virtual Switches. Have some testing to do yet. So I'll let you know whether I've succeeded or not when I've fininished. If not I'll send my spreadsheet of all the IP Settings.

Wish me luck.

[BrianMcG]

@jarhead I have solved my Problems! I deleted everthing and started again several times! I have documented everything I did. Since it is a Word Document I've uploaded it to Dropbox, in case anyone is interrested here DropBox
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Essentially I discovered that when I set up pfSense it connected to the DHCP Server in my ISP's Modem and gave it an IP Address on my WAN. I could not see why this needed changing so I left it alone and did not try to give it a static IP Address.

I also think that when I had been asked during the pfSense installation process, when I was asked whether I wanted to enable a HTTP connection for WebConfigurator, I had answered "n", thinking that the alterantive would be HTTPS. This time I answered "y", and low and belhold I can now get into the WebConfigurator!

Anyway, everything is now going and I no-longer have problems.