2 weeks still nothing.
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Ok I’m done. Totally lost access yet still got dhcp in the same subnet with no changes other than enabling dhcp and enabling Wifi. This is not supposed to happen so I’m taking your advice and trying something else.
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Just catching up here...
This sort of setup should be quite simple as long as you have WAN and LAN in separate subnets.If you need the wifi clients to be in the same subnet as the WAN they must be bridged. However if you do that you can't apply layer3 forwarding rules to redircet DNS traffic. You would have to use layer2 rules, like the captive portal does, and there's no facility to do that in the pfSense GUI. Yet.
Steve
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@A Former User said in 2 weeks still nothing.:
at least fairly proficient with networks.
Dunning-Kruger in action ;)
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@A Former User said in 2 weeks still nothing.:
when it fails I’m starting from scratch, I’m not putting much more effort into this especially as I can’t make it do what I need
Just accept what is proposed by default.
"Default" is : A DHCP client on the WAN interface.
This way, pfSense will grab an IP, actually a lease, from an upstream, probably ISP router, just like any other device already present on your ISP router network. This is a plug and play operation.The LAN interface has to be set to a static IP, like the default 192.168.1.1/24
And you have to think now.
if your WAN network is already using 192.168.1.1/24 (many ISP router do !) then you have to ** set your (static) LAN interface to, for example, 192.168.2.1/24 - it could be any network, but not 192.168.1.1/24
Adapt DHCP server settings for this LAN interface accordingly.See it like this : a router can not route between two identical networks.
** like this : your see a red light ? Stop the car. Don't ask why for now.
If you think this is what you need, please reconsider, ask advise, write down what you want. We'll help.
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@gertjan As I said earlier, he doesn't have things connected correctly.
If I had to guess, I'd say the WAN and LAN are both connected to his ISP router. -
@jarhead he left.. Deleted his account..
