In production, you will have a public IP address configured on the WAN port for true edge firewall capabilities. This is because I have this configured in a lab environment. For management, specifically note the LAN ip address.īelow, you will note I have private IPs on both the WAN and LAN port. The pfSense WAN is the address used for incoming traffic that will be NAT’ed inward to internal IP addresses on the network. Download Installation Media Prepare Installation Media Perform the Installation. The pfSense firewall will also be the default gateway for the clients on the network. This can be changed later, but is something to note as you run the pfSense virtual machine on your Proxmox box. You can’t manage pfSense from the WAN port by default, only the LAN port. The LAN port also doubles as the management port for pfSense VM by default. Select Auto here to automatic partition for pfSense in this hard drive. Here, da1 is my second USB drive and will be used to install pfSense. Choose the hard drive that you want to install pfSense on. The pfSense LAN address is configurable and you will want to configure the address to match your clients. Here you can see all the hard drives as well as the partitions here. You will want to have a static IP address configured on the LAN interface since this will be used as the gateway address for clients connected to the LAN port of the pfSense VM. Most configurations will see the WAN IP address configured from the ISP via DHCP server. As you can see, these are not on the same network or same subnet. Power on the pfsense virtual machine Start the installation and wait for it to get to the main screen Select Accept the license Select Install option Select. Choosing to reboot after the installationĪfter the pfSense VM boots for the first time, you should see your WAN and LAN interfaces come up and show IP addresses for the WAN and LAN ports.
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