Proper way to set up a wireless access point on 2.0
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What is the proper way to set up an wireless access point on 2.0?
I assigned OPT1 to the wireless interface. set mode to Access Point
I created a bridge between lan and opt1
Added rule to firewall - opt1 to pass all traffic for all sources, all destinations (all *)
Wireless clients correctly associate, obtain IP from dhcp but no further traffic goes through.What am I missing?
Thanks
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Maybe NAT ?
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Naah… Not NAT. The wireless and lan interface are bridged.
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You have to allow on lan for opt1 hosts traffic to pass!
You are choosing lan cause you want your clients to reach PC's on LAN otherwise they will not go to internet, since there is no nat for them!
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Thank You ermal
Just to make it clear the rule should be:
Action->Pass, Interface->LAN, Protocol->any, Source->Opt1 Subnet, Destination->any.
Is it correct?
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It depends on what you want to do!
Do you want to give these people access to your WAN?!
- For this you need a nat rule for the wireless(OPT1) interface.
You do not want to give these people access to your WAN?!
- For this you just need to specify the rule you just showed above. -
Still no go!
LAN subnet is 192.168.100.0/24
Wireless is OPT1 set up as access point
Bridge (bridge0) created between LAN and OPT1Firewall rule on OPT1: Action->Pass, Proto->any, Source->any, Port->any, Destination Port->any, Gateway->any, Queue->none (basically wide open) .
Laptop associates correctly. Obtain IP from pfsense DHCP on the 192.168.100.0 subnet, however no traffic to lan or wan is passed.
rules for LAN is to pass everything when source is LAN net, second rule to pass everything when source is OPT1 net.
I want client on the wireless (OPT1) to be able to access LAN and WAN
What am I doing wrong?
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Anybody willing to pitch in?
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You need to setup advanced NAT or search the forum(the same section) how to run dhcpd on top of the bridge interface. The latest is what irecommend since than pfSense will do everything automagically.
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hello there… i just want to ask something from you in order to clear some things. what is it that you want from your opt1(wireless access point), do you want them to get connected to the internet? do you want them to get remote administration from lan? or some other things?
by the way, i am using wan, lan, opt1, opt2 on my pfsense 2.0 alpha alpha with no problem at all...
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hello there… i just want to ask something from you in order to clear some things. what is it that you want from your opt1(wireless access point), do you want them to get connected to the internet? do you want them to get remote administration from lan? or some other things?
by the way, i am using wan, lan, opt1, opt2 on my pfsense 2.0 alpha alpha with no problem at all...
Hi wolverine10,
What I want from opt1 (wireless) is to do everything I can do from lan interface. Access local network and internet. I like to have opt1 on the same subnet as lan (bridged) so that client would seamlesly use lan or wireless.
I am going to read on advanced nat and dhcpd on bridge.
Thanks
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i don't know what version you may be using but in my case i am having pfSense 2.0-ALPHA-ALPHA built on Wed Sep 23 11:28:05 UTC 2009 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3 (and many versions before it–-i have updated many times already) with squid 2.6.21_10 as the only package installed.
i am using two bridges only, mainly: a) opt1-bridge-to-wan, and 2) opt2-bridge-to-wan. however, i did not use opt1 nor opt2 for my long-range access point. i use my lan as the direct connection for my wireless ap. i am using my opt1 and opt2 as wired interfaces.
i use different subnets and different gateways for each of the lan, opt1, and opt2. i only copied the general(default) firewall rule from lan and applied to both opt1 and opt2(except for the names and the interface of course).
...and i can use wireless or lan or opt1 or opt2 seamlessly.
maybe there's just a little bit of configuration you've missed? just my thoughts though... ::)