Environment Setup - morgan-hanrahan/Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

First change the settings on the fw01 VM to the Network Adapter 1 being the WAN and the Network Adapter 2 to being your SYS255-03-LAN-morgan.hanrahan

Power on your fw01 VM and Open a VM Console

  • Find the menu items or icons that allow you to first power on, and then open a web console to your firewall virtual machine
  • Your WAN and LAN are either missing network configuration information or contain default IP addresses.

STEP 1: Assign Interfaces

  • Enter 1
  • Don't configure VLANs now
  • The WAN interface name should be changed to em0 and the LAN should be changed to em1
  • If prompted for an optional interface, select

STEP 2: Set Interface IP address

  • Select 1 again to pick the WAN interface

  • Don't use DHCP for WAN IPv4 address

  • You are using a 24 bit subnet mask

  • For WAN, your upstream gateway is 10.0.17.114

  • We will not be using IPv6, respond NO when asked about DHCP

  • Press to bypass IPv6 configuration

  • When asked about HTTP for the GUI, respond NO

  • Then select 2 to pick LAN interface

  • We are not using DHCP

  • Your LAN IP Address is 10.0.5.2

  • You are using a 24 bit subnet mask

  • You don't have an upstream LAN gateway Press

  • No DHCP

  • Press to bypass IPv6 configuration

  • Don't enable a LAN DHCP Server

  • Do not revert to HTTP

Go back to Settings and adjust the wks01 VMWare Network Configuration so that your Network Adapter 1 is SYS255-03-LAN-morgan.hanrahan

  • Launch the web console
  • Open File Explorer
  • Click "Properties"
  • Click on "Change settings"
  • Then type: wks01-morgan You are now in your new local admin account with your new hostname Make sure the whoami and hostname commands are correct

Navigate to the IPv4 Properties tab and add the following network configuration:

  • IP Address: 10.0.5.100
  • Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
  • Default Gateway: 10.0.5.2
  • Preferred DNS Server: 10.0.5.2

Open internet explorer and type in 10.0.5.2, pFSense should open. The following are screens where you need to change the default. Skip over to the wizard and leave the setting checked to override the DNS server on PPP/WAN

  • System Wizard: General Information
    • Hostname: fw1-morgan
    • Domain: morgan.local
    • Primary DNS: 8.8.8.8
  • System Wizard: Configure WAN Interface
    • RFC1918 Networks: Uncheck "Block private networks from entering via WAN"
  • System/User Manager: Set Root Password
    • If you set it, then you need to remember it
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