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PFS as a router - not working

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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    starshooter10
    last edited by May 4, 2007, 2:23 AM

    im trying to get rid of my old crappy router in favor of a spiffy new "smart" one!

    so i figure i'll give it my best with PFsence (as recommened by a co-worker)

    i can get the box to see the net (ping out ECT)

    and i can ping the box with my hardwired computers (and play with the web GUI)

    but i cant get out!

    i've tried disableing all firewal functions and private networks are not blocked (unckeck)

    but heres what im trying to do:

    http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/1221314/L.jpg

    it seems my box just dosn't want to pass data from one nic to the other =-P

    im upgrading to do some traffic shaping also

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      sullrich
      last edited by May 4, 2007, 4:24 AM

      Crystal ball is broken.  You are using 1.2-BETA-1, right?

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        cmb
        last edited by May 4, 2007, 5:50 AM

        Need a lot more info in addition to version as well.

        What type of Internet connection (DHCP, static, PPPoE, …)? From the ping page in the webGUI can you ping things on the Internet? Can you ping hosts by IP on the wireless from the LAN? Vice versa?

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          starshooter10
          last edited by May 4, 2007, 10:02 PM May 4, 2007, 9:58 PM

          it's v. 1.1
          *dhcp (comcast connection)

          i can ping out from the web GUI

          i can ping the pf box from my personal computer (hardwired)
          didn't install wifi card yet

          i can also ping my personal box from the web gui

          *specs on my box:
          it on a asus board intel chipset
          pentium2 450
          192 ram
          20GB hdd
          2x linksys 10/100 nic v5.1

          soon to add linksys 102.11g wifi card wmp54g

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            hoba
            last edited by May 4, 2007, 10:27 PM

            Disabling all firewall functions (at system>advanced?) will shut down NAT which will break connectivity. pfSense should just work for you in the factory default config as it already is set to use dhcp at WAN. Maybe you should first revert to the factory defaults and retest before changing any settings.

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              starshooter10
              last edited by May 4, 2007, 10:33 PM

              i guess i'll do that….

              from default settings what would i have to do to make this think into a router as per the diagram above?

              *and eventually traffic shaper

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                hoba
                last edited by May 4, 2007, 11:01 PM

                Basically add a 3rd nic and duplicate the default lan to any firewallrule for the opt1 interface. depending on the way you want things to work simply bridge the opt1 to lan or make it a seperate subnet.

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                  cmb
                  last edited by May 5, 2007, 12:49 AM

                  You can ping out from the web GUI to the Internet? But can't access the Internet from the LAN?

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                    starshooter10
                    last edited by May 5, 2007, 6:24 AM

                    thats that way it was…

                    i set it to factory and changed a few things seems to work now...

                    now if i can only figure out how to give this mac no.1 priority =-D

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