18. Once subpartitions has been created, you will see the installation process..
19. At last for installing the kernel, you can choose from the options as non-vga or symetmetric multiprocessing kernel. Here I’m going to choose non-vga and keyboard less.
20. After kernel has been installed, reboot the machine and configure the networking and more in next step as follows.
21. After rebooting, you will get the below screen with available interfaces to configure the network.
The first option is presented as VLAN’s, generally VLAN’s are not needed, they are needed for advance networking, simply here say No.
There are two interface’s em0 and em1, I have planned to assign em0 as WAN our external interface and em1 as LAN which for internal interface with firewall/NAT features enabled.
22. I don’t need a optional interface name, so just continue by pressing Return Key. It will ask for the confirmation Yes/No proceed with Y and press enter to continue.
23. After setting up interfaces, you will get the pfsense menu as show below.
- WAN IP address will be assigned from DHCP. If you need we can assign a static IP.
- LAN IP address will be default as 192.168.1.1, if you want to change choose option 2 and set interfaces IP address.
First let me define a Static IP, subnet mask in Bit count and gateway for the WAN and LAN. Disable the DHCP and continue by choosing Y.
24. Then for LAN interface, If we need DHCP for local area network from pfsense we can assign a range of address from pfsense. I have chosen 192.168.0.15 as my pfsense LAN address and for client machine’s I need to assign a IP address from DHCP in the range of 192.168.0.16 – 192.168.0.25.
25. After all the above settings are performed, it will prompt you a link to access pfSense webconfigurator interface to configure further steps.
Thanks for the tutorial. Now I have the following problem – when I select the disk with Windows 10 on which I would like to install pfSense, there is the following message: “This partition does not have a valid mountpoint (for the partition from which you intend to boot the operating system, the mountpoint should be “/”.
This message is shown even if I have formatted the partition with free space for pfSense as EXT4. So I don’t know how to prepare a disk with Windows for the right pfSense installation, ao that I could during boot choose Windows or pfSense. Please could You help me via my e-mail? thank You very much in advance. Regards Fanda Waldorf
Hello i’m a bit of a noob in this do you need to use the ip of the place you are at or use the ones in the tutorial?
Dear Sir,
My company need pfsense firewall install on my server..
@Shaikh,
You can check our Linux services here: https://www.fosswork.com
you can consult any third party solution provider to manage your firewall, i have worked with HEX64 InfoSolutions my experience was good with the HEX64.
After this what shall we do to make bridge mode.
Yes it is very helpful but a little bit of confusion when assigning IP address wan and LAN in pfsense.
How can you put Lan and Wan on same subnet? Lan and wan ip are the network Why is that?
I agree. I am a little confused by this as well. Shouldn’t you change you lan ip scheme to 192.128.1.x? I ask because I really think this is a good article and I am about to set this up in my lab, only it is being install on a Check Point UTM, and through console port. Thanks again!
I have a typo:
pfsense1(LAN: 192.168.1.3 WAN:221.132.18.251) and pfsense2 (LAN: 192.168.1.2 WAN: 221.132.18.253). I’m config sync with LAN ok but with wan can’t sync, please help me. Thank.
Thank you…..very much!