Hi folks, This is my first post to this list, I'm brand new to PFSense and mostly new to BSD/Unix. I'm planning on moving to PF mainly for its dual WAN capability. I've been using IPCop for years (at work and at home) and have been very happy with it, minus of course its ability to deal easily with dual WAN.
This question has nothing to do with dual WAN though, and I'm just going to spend a month getting comfortable with PF at home. I downloaded the most recent alpha which was available this past Sunday (dashboard claims 2.0-alpha-alpha build date of Sun Nov 23 20:23:22 EST 2008). Yes, I know, I have no intention of going into a production environment with an alpha,,, I'm just learning. :) I've got two NIC's (1 onboard, 1 PCI), and a wireless PCI NIC on an intel P4 based box, 768MB ram, 40GB IDE disk, cdrw. One nic (WAN) is set to DHCP, and the second is set to LAN on a 192.168.2.0/24 subnet. Basic routing works well, systems seems reasonably stable, firewall seems solid. Had a few problems with installing packages which is to be expected given the point release of this version. DCHP is handing out a scope in the 100-200 range to a few desktops, NAT seems actually a bit faster than my IPCop box, but this is a slightly faster desktop PC being utilized. (all 100Mbit full duplex on a decent cut through switch) The NIC is a Dlink DWL 530 which claims to be supported on the HCL for FreeBSD 7 list,,, its got a supported atheros chip, a/b/g, pci card, external sma connected antennae. I set this up as an optional interface and gave it the name "WIRELESS" of type "static", and gave it an IP address of 192.168.2.2 (LAN interface is set to 192.168.2.1). I left the wireless security turned off, set it to 802.11b and in access point mode. I went to the DHCP tab and added a new scope range of 201-210. On my wireless client I see the network, can connect, and get an IP immediately. From the wireless client I can't ping anything (.1, .2, or another wired client, I haven't tried another wireless client yet). However, from any of the wired clients I can ping the wireless client with no problems. On the wireless client I can't get anywhere out the WAN interface only. Thinking that maybe wireless should be on its own subnet, I change the WIRELESS IP to 10.20.30.1 and its DHCP scope to 10.20.30.40-50. Wireless client got address immediately again, but same ping results, and still not joy on outbound through WAN. I've searched the MARC email list archives going back to 2006 but can't find anything similar. Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks a bunch in advance! -tim
