Can you turn DHCP off initially?
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Hidy ho all,
I've only just discovered pfsense, and am still learning about it. I needed a virtual router for a practice network I'm setting up, and found out that pfSense actually routes as well as secures a network. This has me all kinds of pleased, but I had a question about it.
My practice network is going to have a DHCP/DNS/Active directory windows server (as well as a windows client, and a linux client), and I don't want any conflicts. so, can you turn off the DHCP in pfsense during the setup process? Or do I have to setup pfSense first, then turn it off?
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You are asked whether to turn on DHCP right at the initial interface assignment.
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odd, I literally just went through that and didn't see that option.
it asked me to say which interface was the wan interface, and which was the lan. the wan interface connects to my local lan, and the lan connects to a virtual network virtual box let me setup.
It said that this would turn on the full firewall NAT capabilities and asked me if I wanted to continue. I said yes, and now I have my interfaces connected and setup. But nothing regarding DHCP.
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Well, then use the GUI. Not really keen on resetting any of the boxes to verify. When you set up LAN IP, it for sure asks about DHCP.
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right-o. Thanks for the help.
Is there a manual for pfsense?
I had to manually set the virtual clinets ip to be on the same subnet to get to the web portal, but I can't seem to get into the portal.
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Are you using the quick/simple setup.. I just did this a few times with 2.2.2 and don't recall it asking - I know in previous versions it use to. Or maybe it was phase 2 when you hit the web gui..
Will run through a setup real quick and check.
Ok as soon as the console comes up with all the numbers you can pick and showing your wan and lan address, if you goto 2 you can assign IP to your lan and will ask you to enable or disable dhcp
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huh, honestly didn't see that.
But it doesn't matter, disabled it through the web interface. Thanks for the help all!
Is there a user guide I can read up on pfsense? or is it ok to come across as a complete newb around here?
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Is there a user guide I can read up on pfsense? or is it ok to come across as a complete newb around here?
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Main_Page
everyone is a newb at something
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…... the wan interface connects to my local lan, and the lan connects to a virtual network virtual box let me setup.
Hummm, love to see this one.
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it worked. I setup the wan interface to connect to my local lan.
And I did all this within virtual box. Just set the NIC connecting to my lan to be a bridged network, and let it get an IP automatically.
The client (a win 7x64 vm) and the server (server 2012 x64 trial version vm) are connected to a virtual lan with static ip's (virtual box hands out ips automatically, regardless of the network config), and the vm running pf sense has one NIC connected to the virtual lan, and annother connected to the host NIC via a bridged connection.
Gave the NIC connected to the virtual lan a static ip, and I disabled the restriction about allowing experimental addresses through pfsense. Bobs your uncle, I have network connectivity. Its actually pretty cool.
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Hummm, love to see this one.
??? this is the very basic way to setup a virtual pfSense lab. pfSense WAN is on your real LAN (with Block Private Networks unchecked of course), and the pfSense LAN is an internal network. That's how I play with it at home.
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and the pfSense LAN is an internet network
I think KOM means "internal" network ;)
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D'oheth!
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It only asks you if you want to configure DHCP on LAN if you use menu option 2 to re-assign the IP addresses after pfSense is already setup. At the initial interface assign screen on first boot it does not.
Edit: Hmm, I was sure about this until just now… ;)
Steve
