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Help setting up pfSense
« on: November 25, 2010, 12:54:36 PM »
I'm alone on thanksgiving and I figured it would be a great opportunity to get my geek on...



I snagged a box off of ebay, I was going to buy a router but this was cheaper and I always wanted to run a pfSense box.

Its a 1U server, I swapped the +12V and +5V rails for the case fans so its pretty quiet.  It has:
2x 2.66GHz Xeon w/HT
4GB RAM
40GB HD
2 1Gb Intel NICs
1 10/100 Intel NIC

  I figure that should move some packets.  I plan to ignore the 10/100 port and have one Gb interface as WAN and the other as LAN, does that sound legit, what else can I do with that wayward port?

1.2.3 vs 2.0 Beta4, what should I run?
Do I need to do anything to turn on the web interface?
Anyone have any tips or tricks or know any gotchas?
Am i missing out on anything by using the default/easy install option?
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Re: Help setting up pfSense
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2010, 02:43:24 PM »
I did the east install of 2.0Beta4, web interface is on by default.  I configured my LAN interface 10.0.0.1/23 and set the DHCP range to 10.0.1.1-254.  Now I just need to figure out how to setup static leases.
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Re: Help setting up pfSense
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2010, 06:45:17 PM »
You can setup static leases right from the dhcp client menu under status.  Just click on one of the buttons that has a + on it to the right and you can set it up by MAC. pfSense is cake.
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Re: Help setting up pfSense
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2010, 06:47:35 PM »
Alternately, under Services - DHCP Server, you can set them up manually...it's at the bottom of the page.
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Re: Help setting up pfSense
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2010, 06:49:32 PM »
Oh...and Happy Thanksgiving! 
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Re: Help setting up pfSense
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2010, 07:18:33 PM »
Thanks and happy turkey day!
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