Anyone that's set this up care to comment?  I'm starting to talk about
things I've never done, not a good idea :)

--Bill

On 10/24/05, Peter Zaitsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 09:23 -0500, Bill Marquette wrote:
> > O
> >
> > > Is there any way I could  have pfsense ip  at .154 and  use .155-158 for
> > > my applications ?
> >
> > Yes, configure the pfSense LAN IP to .154 (and configure it for the
> > full subnet - you'll need to set the default gateway too) and then
> > bridge LAN to WAN.  You'll need rules on the WAN interface to allow
> > for remote management of the pfSense box, but that should work just
> > fine.
>
> Well,
>
> Both LAN and WAN wants their IPs set.
>
> And never of configurations seems to work decent way.
>
> First,  I have to set IP address to WAN network, otherwise it complains
>
> "field 'IP address' is required."
>
> I may only set IP to WAN network and leave LAN ip empty and enable
> bridging.    In this case PfSense however becomes unreachable from  LAN
> network  (should not it be fixed to also require IP if it is really
> required ?)    In this case I however can access WebGUI  from external
> network (I allowed all incoming traffic for tests).
>
> One more bug around it - If I provide empty LAN address in configuration
> it continues to work... until reboot.  Reboot causes system to be
> inaccessible from LAN.  This especially worries me as if reboot happens
> few months after you've done some changes you might not remember what
> they were...
>
>
> If I set both LAN and WAN to use the same IP address (.154)  access from
> WAN breaks,  even with firewall which permits everything
>
> ... Went do do some research.
>
> Ok. It looks like I got what the problem is.  There is  "wanspoof" rule
> which blocks all traffic from WAN network which comes from IPs which are
> set for LAN network, which seems to be wrong in case of Network
> bridging.
>
> Also... I see there is the rule "SSHLockout"  - any way to disable it ?
> It is to be used in collocation environment and there are certain hosts
> which will need such access.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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