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pfSense and plus.net setup

cphillips1 — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:13:26 GMT

Hi,

I currently have the following:

Internet -> BT Openreach modem -> Netgear R9000 router -> LAN (comprising ESX server and various VMs)

I would like to switch my Netgear R9000 router to become an Access Point and have a pfSense installation doing the work of that as the router.

How do I setup the WAN side of pfSense? Do I need to set it to use PPPOE or DHCP/Static? My account with Plus.net has a static IP. The more I read on the internet the more confused I become!

At the moment I have pfSense running as a VM (no VLAN's involved) on ESX.

More than happy to provide any further details as needed!

Thanks in advance.

Re: pfSense and plus.net setup

MisterW — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:35:49 GMT

@cphillips1

Do I need to set it to use PPPOE or DHCP/Static? My account with Plus.net has a static IP. The more I read on the internet the more confused I become!

You set it for PPPoE and obtain IP from ISP.

It matters not whether you have a dynamic or static IP on your account. Effectively, having a static IP just means that you will always be allocated the same IP.

Re: pfSense and plus.net setup

cphillips1 — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:30:28 GMT

MisterW

Thanks, I set it to PPPoE, entered my username and password for plus.net and it sprang into life.
I can't get out to the internet at the moment so looks like I have an issue with DNS (I have a Windows Domain on my network and use that for DNS) so need to do some more troubleshooting but have made progress!

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