New Install - Can't Ping Public IP
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I did a brand new install of PFSense. I followed the basic setup. My two NICs have a static internal LAN IP and DHCP WAN. I can see the WAN has an IP from Comcast. I can ping local LAN IPs and the WAN IP. I cannot ping external IPs. I've tried pinging 8.8.8.8 & 75.75.75.75. Can someone point me to what could be wrong?
Thanks,
seag33k
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I am not sure what was wrong, but I was using a different 192.168.x.0 subnet that the default 192.168.1.1. When I sued the default things started working.
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Same problem here - exactly as you described it.
If I perform a vanilla install then everything works. If I make a minor change to set the internal network to a 192.168.0.X instead of the default 192.168.1.X then routing dies.
I can perform NSlookups from the diagnostics and the WAN interface will get an IP from DHCP but other than that nothing works.
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Is the WAN actually getting a private IP by DHCP from your ISP front-end router device?
If it gets the subnet 192.168.0.0/24 that will conflict with LAN and stuff things up.
Do not set the LAN subnet to the same (or overlapping) what is on WAN.
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What Phil said is what people that actually understand things say ;D
Me can add a noob contribution: I just installed a new NIC and added a WAN-interface. I got an external ip, but couldn't ping google. Reboot, and done, it worked.
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Yes, reboot is a great help for Pfsense, indeed.