Virtual and physical network - connecting to pfsense

[jimfire]

hello,

I am running Win xp pro pc and Vmware Workstation 5.5.1 . I have installed pfsense in virtual guest on FreeBSD as per tutorial. My pc has 2 physical NICs. 1 NIC is connected to router. other NIC is not connected. pfsense was installed on virtual pc with 2 virtual NICs.
1 NIC is bridged to WAN (192.168.123.108 DHCP) and second NIC is Custom VMNet2. (192.168.1.1).

host pc (192.168.123.121)
router (192.168.123.254)

I can ping host win xp pro pc from pfsense. I cannot ping pfsense WAN or LAN address. I cannot get into pfsense Webconfigurator (192.168.1.1 ?). I am newbie i dont know how to reach Webconfigurator from pfsense either. i get console setup on pfsense.

Is my setup correct? I would like host pc to connect to pfsense and also configure and use pfsense as firewall aftrer router. I am newbie please be kind to explain in simple terms.

Many thanks. I look forward to your help.

[jeroen234]

link you 2end nic to the vmnet2 network

you will now get a ipadress from pfsense in the 192.168.1.x range
now that you have access to the lan port of pfsense http://192.168.1.1 will work

[jimfire]

link you 2end nic to the vmnet2 network

Could you please tell me how to do this?

i tried couple of settings from vmware virtual network settings but i could not get it to work.
how to do this. please elaborate.

Thanks for your reply.