Hello Bret, The answer to your first question is not really. You can do an advanced install but will have to make the partitions needed beforehand using a live system disk and then play around with grub after installing PfSense on freed partitions. Fairly complex especially since this is BSD and not Debian. May be easier to use a separate disk, that way you could swap.
In default install the Wan does use DHCP the Lan can be changed very easily from console, option 2 I believe. Hope that answers your queries. Sincerely, Usama On Nov 17, 2015 8:45 PM, "Bret Busby" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I have been recommended to install and use pfSense to replace my > existing firewall, which is Firestarter running on an old and > unsupported version of Debian Linux. > > I have looked at the pfSense documentation, including the Installation > Guide for pfSense, and I have the following two queries. > > Does installing pfSense, especially, using the "Quick/Easy Install > option", allow for installation so as to allow for multiple boot > options (being able to choose an alternative boot option)? Rather than > obliterate the existing firewall installation, I would prefer, if > possible, to be able to install pfSense "alongside" the existing > firewall installation, so that, using a bootloader like GRUB, if I > have any problems with operating or configuring pfSense, or, with the > installation procedure, or, subsequent updating, of pfSense, I could > revert to using the existing firewall installtion, to allow me > Internet access, to be able to seek assistance. > > The second query is thus; from what I understand, the "pfSense Default > Configuration" has "LAN is configured with a static IPv4 address of > 192.168.1.1/24". Is it possible, with the "Quick/Easy Install option", > to retain the current LAN configuration, where the network card that > goes outside, uses DHCP, and the network card that interfaces with the > LAN behind the firewall, uses a slightly different IPv4 address range; > eg, if it instead used 192.168.3.1/99 ? > > Thank you in anticipation. > > -- > > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > .................................................... > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
