Help, newbie in PFSense…

[CiCC]

Hi there…

Althought i've seen questions in this forum like mine, the answers don't fill my questions...
So I'm going to try to picture my scenario in my network and see if you can help me...

My network is kind like this

<-> -------------------------- PFSENSE FIREWALL -------------- <-LAN ->
Router TO INTERNET

I want the pfsense as an transparente traffic shapping, i have read that it must be in bridge mode.
My box of the pfsense has 3 NIC's

One is for WAN
Another is for LAN
And the last one is OPT1

I want to access Firewall from OPT1 is possible?
What IP addressing should WAN and LAN have, ip from Internet or IP from private network?

On the LAN Side i have a FreeBSD with pf enabled as NAT and DHCP server, that's why i want pfsense in transparent mode.

Please Help, or if there is a paper to read about i would aprecciate you help.

[podilarius]

search doc.pfsense.org or order the book. There is many writeups on this. You can access GUI from OPT1 by creating a rule to allow traffic. By default all traffic is block on all interface except for LAN. You can create an allow all rule and you will not have a problem. In a true bridging transparent firewall, the WAN and LAN will not have an IP address at all.

[CiCC]

:) Thanks Podilarius… in doc.pfsense.orf there is a paper how to do it, but the version of pfsense they use is 1.0 BREBETA2-BUGVALIDATION-EDITION5 and the newest one doesn't have the pages they show. even the webconfigurator of newest version of pfsense, doesn't have anythinhg about bridge mode. That's why I entered the foroum and made this request. But I'f i get the information I'll post it here for all the people in the foroum...

Thanks for your time...