Assign given MAC Address to Virtual IP

frhack

I'm trying to use pfsense as firewall in OVH infrastructure.

OVH gives a MAC address for every public IP.

I need to specify the given MAC addresses to the virtual ip in OVH in order to establish DMZ networking (OVH rule).

Is there a way to assign the given MAC in pfsense Virtual IP ?

From the web GUI is not possible, maybe from shell ?

thanks

frhack

I found a workaround as follows.

(I' m in VMWARE esxi)

for every public IP:

create a virtual NIC attached to WAN network
create in pfsense a new WAN interface with the assigned MAC address WAN_xxx_xxx_xxx_xxx (where xxx_xxx_xxx_xxx is the public IP)

At the end I will have n WAN Interfaces, one every public IP (for example 16 or 32 …)

...is there any drawback?

a77ila

I did the exact same thing on my pfsense running on proxmox.
The request from every wan to the virtual IP's works like a charm.
The problem is when i try to make a given host to exit with a choosen virtual ip instead of the default gateway.

Suggestions anyone?

Kevin Maschke

@a77ila I'm facing the same issue on OVH.
I see I'll need one Network interface on the PFSense VM for each Public IP... I hoped to be able to have only 1 NIC on the VM using the OVH MAC, and assign the rest as virtual IPs, but it does not seem to work this way.

The problem is when i try to make a given host to exit with a choosen virtual ip instead of the default gateway.

That is something I'm looking at too, I need two of my VMs to exit as two specific public IPs, but haven't managed to do this yet either :(