chrismetcalf
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I've got CenturyLink fiber to the home gigabit, and I'm trying to not use their crappy rental router. I'm attempting to set up a pfSense firewall/router in a VM on FreeNAS 11.1-U6, but I'm stuck.
CenturyLink's fiber _could_ be as simple as just hooking up a cat-6 to the TNC, but they like to make it hard on us poor home networking people:
So here's what I've got so far:
Anybody have any ideas of what I might change or test?
CenturyLink's fiber _could_ be as simple as just hooking up a cat-6 to the TNC, but they like to make it hard on us poor home networking people:
- The packets on the WAN connection to the TNC have to be on a VLAN tagged 201
- For some inexplicable reason you need to connect via PPPoE
So here's what I've got so far:
- FreeNAS 11.1-U6 running on a great, well-baked home NAS with a SuperMicro motherboard with dual ethernet ports. Since I'd heard some stuff about onboard ethernet ports not always VLANing properly, I added a Netgear PCI-E gigabit card for my WAN port
- In FreeNAS, I created a new VLAN tagging that new interface 201, which I called "vlan201". I assigned no DHCP or IP information to that new interface
- To my VM, I added a new NIC using vlan201 and the Intel interface type
- In pfSense, I created a new VLAN using my WAN interface tagging it 201. That created an "em1.201" interface
- I then created a new PPPoE config using em1.201 as the interface, using my known-good CenturyLink PPPoE credentials
- I then assigned that PPPoE connection "PPPOE0(em.201)" as my WAN interface
Anybody have any ideas of what I might change or test?