But whenever I try to ping the pfsense vm I get the usual message, Destination Host: unreachable. I've disabled Firewalls on the Windows machines, hoping that would fix the issue, nothing. I can access the internet with the pfsense machine via the Bridged Adapter. Mar 6, 2013 - So, part of building the ultimate virtualbox lab means we should. Because we want to use virtualization for this task, what pfSense will do is act.
I’m trying to install PFSense 2.4.2 in a Virtualbox guest machine on a Windows 10 Host machine with some out of date guides (e.g. ) (doing it to make a proper VPN + kill switch + firewall / snort). I have a physical card configured as em1 (LAN), and a Microsoft Loopback Adapter configured as em0 (WAN).
On the PFSense web GUI my WAN Interface status is: Status up MAC Address xxxxx - my mac from my physical card IPv4 Address 10.0.0.1 - the default gateway and DHCP server from the internet connection plugged into my PC Subnet mask IPv4 255.255.255.0 - correct IPv6 Link Local fe80::a00:27ff:fef6:12aa%em0 - not sure why I have this here, I did my best to disable all IPV6 things. DNS servers 127.0.0.1 - I guess this is the default PFSense DNS server? My Firewall Rules WAN says: 0 /3 KiB. RFC 1918 networks. Block private networks 0 /0 B. Reserved Not assigned by IANA.
Block bogon networks Firewall Rules LAN: 8 /4.64 MiB. LAN Address 443 80. Anti-Lockout Rule 2 /4 KiB IPv4. LAN net.
none Default allow LAN to any rule 0 /0 B IPv6. LAN net. none Default allow LAN IPv6 to any rule Firewall Rules OpenVPN: No rules are currently defined for this interface All incoming connections on this interface will be blocked until pass rules are added.
Click the button to add a new rule. ^ This last one is “fine”. I will have to figure it out afterwards but internet should work without OpenVPN either way. TheGuy: 127.0.0.1 - I guess this is the default PFSense DNS server? That address is known as the Loopback address.
It’s the address that points to “itself” for EVERY device on the planet. PFSense defaults to itself being a DNS resolver.
Looking at the instructions you linked, I want to make sure you removed the IPV4 and IPV6 from the “Ethernet Adapter” in windows. Also, that you didn’t assign any IP addresses to the Loopback address in windows.
If you can hit the 192.168.1.1, you should be able to go further. Though you may have to set a default route on the windows machine to be 192.168.1.1 I haven’t done a setup like this before. May have to test it out. DeusQain: That address is known as the Loopback address. It’s the address that points to “itself” for EVERY device on the planet. PFSense defaults to itself being a DNS resolver. Now that you’ve said that, I remember 127.0.0.1 from network class years ago in college K.
So I had assigned a manual IP address to the Loopback adapter. But now I left IP to Automatic, and DNS server manual to 192.168.1.1, and it works! The loopback adapter gets the correct IP automatically. Leaving DNS to Automatic as well, it defaults to IP 169.254.30.217 (wrong).
When I removed the IPV4 and IPV6 from the windows Ethernet adapter, I no longer had internet in windows and also no change in pfsense, even after a restart. It’s so weird that you don’t find much online about Virtualbox + PFSense + Windows host. I would think it’s the obvious move for anyone that has a laptop but can’t install linux bare metal due to hardware driver issues (e.g. Videocards) (which should be many people). Update: After changing things to what I/you said in my previous post (DHCP under Interfaces / WAN, removed IPV4 and IPV6 form win ethernet) and restarted my PFSense virtualbox, my wan says: Status up MAC Address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx IPv4 Address 127.0.0.1 Subnet mask IPv4 255.255.255.0 IPv6 Link Local fe80::a00:27ff:fef6:12aa%em0 DNS servers 127.0.0.1 208.67.220.220 vpn dns vpn dns 208.67.222.222 MTU 1500 Media 1000baseT In/out packets 0/0 (0 B/0 B) In/out packets (pass) 0/0 (0 B/0 B) In/out packets (block) 9/5 (685 B/416 B) In/out errors 0/0 Collisions 0 So it’s no longer IPv4 0.0.0.0.
But no internet. And I’m going to bed now.
Update: Setting Intefaces / WAN - IPv4 Config to DHCP didn’t find my gateway router IP. But I scrolled down to DHCP Client Configuration and in the Alias IPv4 address I wrote my gateway (10.0.0.1/24).
After restarting the VM, I got this WAN Interface status: Status up DHCP up Release Relinquish Lease MAC Address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx IPv4 Address 10.0.0.19 - GOOD! Subnet mask IPv4 255.255.255.0 - GOOD Gateway IPv4 10.0.0.1 - GOOD IPv6 Link Local fe80::a00:27ff:fef6:12aa%em0 - don’t know what this is about, IPV6 should be disabled DNS servers 127.0.0.1 208.67.220.220 vpn dns vpn dns 208.67.222.222 MTU 1500 Media 1000baseT In/out packets 0/620 (0 B/40 KiB) In/out packets (pass) 0/620 (0 B/40 KiB) In/out packets (block) 1204/0 (98 KiB/0 B) In/out errors 0/0 Collisions 0 Don’t know why I have to manually specify the gateway and why DHCP screws up so royally. Is it because it’s in a VM and it has trouble interfacing with the windows ethernet adapter? I would like a network independent setup. Status / Gateways / Gateways tells me.
Name Gateway Monitor RTT RTTsd Loss Status Description WANDHCP 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.1 0.091ms 0.057ms 0.0% Online Interface WANDHCP Gateway “Online” how exactly? Online as in connected to the gateway router? Why don’t I has internets then? Since my gateway is a home router, I unchecked “Block private networks and loopback addresses” in the Interfaces / WAN. And I added a custom rule to Firewall Rules WAN to allow TCP/UDP, port range any to any. WHY IS PFSENSE NOT INCLUDING THIS RULE BY DEFAULT? (it can be disabled by default, just have it FFS - what else are they not including that is vital?) I reverted to Outbound NAT Mode: Automatic outbound NAT rule generation.
(IPsec passthrough included) Still no internet connection. I need help with this firewall log. Alright so after taking each of the million logs and pages in PFSense one by one and reading everything (they should look into collapsing newbie-irrelevant information, UX and hints), I am online. Here are most of the problems I had:.
dhcp wasn’t finding the gateway and subnet mask (and trying to fix it got things messed up). default firewall example rules to allow internet are missing by default, and you don’t know wtf is wrong or what to do. interface (lan wan) config settings (by default won’t let you connect PFSense to a home router, assumes modem only (blocks home ip ranges)). hard to figure out openvpn settings and firewall / nat / outbound settings. most frustrating: some changes kinda get applied, but sometimes not fully until you restart the BSD OS (and maybe also your windows adapters) - sometimes applying settings never quite finishes applying things in background or god knows what else happens b/w pfsense and the host adapters and you think your changes didn’t fix the problem.
Glad you got it mostly sorted. To be fair to PFSense, you are using it in a scenario that it wasn’t exactly designed for.
By default it’s designed to be between a private network and a public network. Not between two private networks. Doesn’t really have anything to do with a home router/modem.
Yes, OpenVPN can be tricky. Mainly because it’s not designed to be used as an identity/privacy proxy as with most of these public “VPN” services. I agree that it’s frustrating for things to not apply as expected, but I refer back to the fact that it’s not designed (nor really supported) as a Virtual machine. The DHCP bit, I’m a little confused by, unless it has something to do with it being in a virtual machine with hardware pass-through. All in all, good job. One annoyance I still have is that if any change occurs on the ethernet adapter that I use as WAN input for the PFSense VM, then PFSense won’t reconnect on its own until I restart the VM.
I don’t know if there is a command to force PFSense/FreeBSD to do whatever it is it only does on a reboot. The crazy/cool thing I’m trying to do now, is have another VM (Debian) which gets access to a USB ethernet adapter and a USB WiFi adapter (because PFSense doesn’t like WiFi as WAN, and BSD doesn’t have great WiFi driver support), and I share Debian’s Internet Connection out the VM through Windows to the PFSense VM as WAN. This works, but if I switch betwee Ethernet and Wifi inside Debian, or go to another WiFi hotspot, then the aforementioned problem happens where PFSense can’t reconnect to WAN. PS: Good points, yeah PFSense was totally not made for all this “shit”. But that’s not gonna stop me.
I'm new to pfSense and VirtualBox, I have a PC running Ubuntu, in Ubuntu I run a VirtualBox host. PfSense is installed as a virtual machine.
I have two network adapters, one connected to my modem(WAN), one connected to a switch (LAN). I bridged the adapters to my virtual machine. Everything works, I was able to connect to the Internet, other computers in LAN is able to obtain IP addresses from pfSense, working perfectly fine.
The only issue here is I don't know how I would connect my virtual machine host into the same network as other PC in LAN. Edit: to make it clear, here is a graph to my network How should I configure interfaces enp3s0 to get an IP address from the pfSense's DHCP? You mention that you got it working with DCPH, meaning your IP settings is being served from your local DHCP server in pfsense.
My understanding is that you want to assign a static IP address to your enp3s0 network device. Sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces At the bottom of this file add the following lines (adapt to suit your configuration): iface enp0s3 inet static address 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 Enable the new configuration by restarting the networking service. Sudo systemctl restart networking This way your Virtual Machine Host will be assigned static IP address 192.168.1.50, and all its' outgoing internet traffic will be routed via your Pfsense router.
In addition, all DNS queries will directed to your PfSense (assuming this is your local DNS, else just add OpenDNS addresses 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 instead). RIght now you are communicating on sub-net 192.168.1.0 which is only reachable if your enp0s3 is in active link state, i e when you are connected to the switch.
Another approach would be to define a separate sub-net to communicate between host and vPfsense. That would evolve setting up a bridge network device on your host for the new sub-net, and defining a new em interface on your vPfsense. That would provide IP connectivity regardless if the host is connected to the external switch, or not. Since I don't run this type of virtual set-up I am not able to provide any configuration details.
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