Problem adding additional interface to pfsense
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Hi guys,
Sorry if this is in the wrong place - I am in the process of setting up pfsense so I am posting in installations but maybe thats not quite right….Anyway, I have just installed pfsense 2.1. It may be slightly out of date but I am sort of following a guide I made myself so trying to keep it the same.
I have a WAN interface, LAN interface and I have set up a virtual IP/subnet. I do it this way so I can assign internal IPs to my virtual machines and then I NAT those internal IP addresses to public IPs that are part of my virtual IP/subnet.
Sorry if I am using bad terminology, I am still a beginner at networking and so on, but this is what I was advised to set up when I asked questions here previously.This all works fine.
BUT if I try to add 1 more interface (LAN2) I can add it, configure new internal ip range and then I reboot pfsense and I can no longer get back in to the web interface.
I just cant work out what could be going wrong when adding that third interface. Just wondering if you guys can help me in where to start looking for possible issues?
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start by updating to the latest stable release.
the webgui isn't all that different. -
ok I will try that in a minute and report back….
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I got it working but stupidly I did 3 things at once:
Updated to latest release.
decided to use 192.168.3.1/24 instead of 192.168.2.1/24 for new interface (In case there was some conflict with that lan range)
Added a rule allowing the network to communicate over WAN - rules - source OPT1 net, dest * allow for both IPv4 and IPv6.I guess the second two arent likely to have caused my issue connecting to router admin (Seeing as I connect on the IP of WAN interface) so probably it was updating to latest version resolved it…?
Thanks!
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This has happened again, I dont remember making any more changes but I rebooted the VM and web interface failed to load again.
I have now restored from a backup and have went through my setup step by step until it breaks.I know that its definitely breaking as soon as I actually enable the OPT1 interface and add a local IP range to it (192.168.2.1/24) - after rebooting the web interface will not load.
I have a backup so I can revert back to before the adaptor is enabled and again it will work.
Not sure where to start looking for the problem?
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Just to confirm as well, I have upgraded to the latest release and still the problem persists.
I do also have a full guide that I followed to set pfsense up as well so I can provide all steps that I have taken if that will help…..
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Sorry guys, turned out to be something outside of pfsense - I have a virtual switch configured in hyperV where the pfsense guest is running and there was a box labelled "Enable VLAN identification for operating system management" and that had somehow got ticked for one of the virtual adaptors on pfsense. It seemed to be breaking pfsense.
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Actually no its gone wrong again without me changing anything.
Its making me think that its some sort of intermittent issue because its sometimes working and sometimes not post reboot. -
Right, I am going for a record on the most times in which I can change my mind on what is wrong here. I think it was throwing me because it was intermittent but I thought it was corresponding to certain changes I was making.
To troubleshoot further I started from scratch and just kept rebooting over and again and I found that it was sometimes failing to come back up even before I had added additional interfaces to pfsense.
I eventually realised (I think) that it was because I was using legacy adaptors in hyperv - In the past pfsense had not worked for me unless I used legacy adaptors but maybe that has changed in the latest release.
Anyway, once I added standard adaptors it appears to be working as expected. I have WAN and 3 LAN networks now and it is allowing me into the web admin consistantly so I think and hope I have resolved the issue.
Just posting an update here in case anyone else runs into the same problem.