[Chester LUG] PFSense help

Michael Crilly mrcrilly at googlemail.com
Sat Oct 23 09:05:02 UTC 2010


Hit it with a stick. 

I need to sit down with you Stuart an pick your brains on networking fundamentals. I'm doing my CCNA at present. 

Besides we aint seen each other for some time now :)

Regards,

Mike.

On 23 Oct 2010, at 09:50, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agre but the problem is how do I tell it which gateway is default, ie the WAN:)
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> On 23 October 2010 07:33, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Isn't that done via the gateway IP you supply to each host? Usually a router/switch that gets a packet/frame not in it's own subnet will forward to the gateway no?
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> Regards,
> 
> Mike.
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> On 22 Oct 2010, at 23:22, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hiya,
>> 
>> Is anyone really good with pfsense.
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>> I have a small pc to function as a pfsense router.
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>> It has 3 interfaces - LAN,WAN,OPT
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>> The LAN is 10.0.0.0/16
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>> WAN is provided by DHCP
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>> The last interface is 172.16.0.0/24
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>> Now I can get all the routes talking to each other. However I cant get the 172.16.0.0 to use  a default route to push it out the DHCP assigned WAN interface. I cant see anywhere to say any traffic with no explicit route, route via WAN.
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>> Anyone know if its even possible ?
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>> Regards
>> 
>> Stuart
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