Hi folks, Please ignore the question below.
I found the "rules" section and created my rule for wireless! All is well, thanks for putting up with the newb question. Cheers, -tim On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Tim Dressel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
