According to Chris Buechler <[email protected]> on Mon, 01/12/09 at 11:44:
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:36 AM, William Bulley <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Second, I have one question:
> >
> >   "How does one set (and save) a default route (as in "route add default 
> > 10.0.0.1")
> >   from within pfSense?"
> 
> On the WAN. The WAN interface needs to be the one facing the rest of
> your network as it's the only one that can have the default gateway
> (in 1.2.x). Though I think just plugging your gateway IP into the WAN
> page will suffice regardless of whether it really resides on WAN.

Thanks.

Is this behaviour essential to pfSense?  It doesn't seem like it would
be a FreeBSD requirement.  Maybe a future enhancement to pfSense may make
multiple interfaces more "interchangeable" or "clone-like".  What if my
sis0 interface on my 4801 died (unlikely, to be sure).  I would want to
move to use a different (sis1 or sis2) interface.  It seems to me all the
(like, ethernet) interfaces should have identical configuration choices.

I say this as a newbie if only to avoid confusion with the "AccessPoint2"
URL tutorial which made no mention of this feature/fact IIRC.  I will try
your WAN suggestion above.  If this works, so be it.  I think this would
mean that WAN (sis1) would become active (since it is disabled at present).
That is the only unusual side-effect, but not a serious show stopper.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,

web...

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William Bulley                     Email: [email protected]


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