Not able to ping through Wan or Lan
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Haha this makes perfect sense now, but as for a wifi connection (there is no room to put a wifi card into the pfsense router). In theory I could use that old router as an AP is that correct?
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If you do it correctly, you would disable DHCP on the old router…
Disable NAT on the old router...
Then plug any 1 of the ports (other than WAN) on the old router into the switch you attach to pfsense LAN
And put tape over the WAN port of the old router, so no one ever tries to use that port.
And yes - you can wifi that way. You can even use it as a switch that way.
But so few people do it correctly, So I recommend a wireless AP and a good cheap switch instead.
What is the model number of your router?
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I have a WD F2F
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It looks nice… Maybe buy an AP and a switch and sell the router on ebay?
You can try to disable DHCP as I said and use it directly as a switch.
It might work. I use serveral routers I've loaded with DDWRT in the way you want but I wouldn't venture to try DDWRT on that router of yours.
In any case, the first step is buy that NIC (-;
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Before you do that there is a potentially serious error in your config.
Earlier you said you have reset the box and used the default values. You also said your current router is using the 192.168.1.1 address. This is a problem because pfSense also uses that address for its LAN. You changed the router address to 192.168.1.2 but that is still in the same subnet. PfSense must have different subnets on its wan and lan otherwise routing will not work.
Change one device to use a different subnet, for example use: 192.168.100.1Steve
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That is correct, but I had never tried the dual router method as this last time I had only taken a Lan from the old router to the Wan of the pfsense router. This is not how the end result will be just wanted to test the NIC and see if I could get anything to work (pinging wise).
The end result will be the modem then the pfsense router and that router will then feed the old router via either Lan to Lan or possibly even Lan to Wan if I decide to do the last one that I will have to reset the IP subnet mask for the old router since it is set to the default 192.168.1.1.
Please let me know if I am understanding this correctly.
Thanks again everyone for all of the help!
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Yes, that's correct. As long as your modem is a separate device you should be ok.
Sorry I jumped in there without thoroughly reading those last posts. ::)Steve
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I'm just not sure how successful you can be in turning off DHCP on that router and making it act like a switch. Thats what bugs me about the anticipated config.
And I'm certain you dont want modem > pfsense WAN > then pfsense LAN > Old Router WAN as thats double NAT (not Good)
If you start having issues, be aware that odds are its your old modem messing things up for you.
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So I think I have completed my findings and come up with a plan of action to complete this network.
Okay so to start I just wanted to make sure that the internal card was not working so I tried every interface possible connected to the internal port with no success pinging to Google. So I can finally say my issue lies on the on-board port, not a big deal as I will get that Intel PCI card and go from there.
As for my completed network I will have the modem go to the Wan of the pfsense and then Lan out to a switch where I will have all of my computers hooked up via ethernet, also at two ends of those ethernet cables I will have to AP's one at one end of the house and another at the other. I already have one pure AP and I will try to configure my old router as an AP via a Lan to Lan connection.
One day I will convert my private network to a VLan but for now I will work with what I got since I have no clue how to set up a VLan.
Anyways thank you again for all of your help and if you have any further suggestions please let me know.
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Enjoy. Let me know when its up (-: