Cabling in Vcenter

• Right-click on the VM and hit enter settings.
• To change the wiring using the drop-down on the network adapter.
• To add a new network adapter, select Add New Device and then select the wiring.

Assign Interfaces in PFsense

• Enter 1 in the Pfsense console.
• Now, the valid interfaces should be shown on screen. Confirm these are the same as the mac address and interfaces assigned in Vcenter.
• Set the Wan and Lan interface to the matching connection.

Set interface IPs

• Select 2

Set wan IP

• Select 1
• skip DHCP
• enter wan IP
• enter subnet mask size
• Enter the upstream gateway

Set LAN IP

• Select 2
• skip DHCP
• Enter lan IP
• Enter subnet mask size

Set network information on windows computer.

• Go to IPV4 Properties
• Configure gateway, subnet, and IP address.

Configuring Pfsense in GUI

• go to the IP of the PfsenseFW and login
• set host and domain names.
• Enter a DNS such as 8.8.8.8

Topics to investigate

• What is pfsense? Pfsense is an open-source distribution of FreeBSD. It functions as both a router and a firewall. Due to its lack of bloat and security flaws, pfsense is enticing for many users. PFsense Documentation
• What is DNS? This is like a reference for URIs and the IPs associated with them. There are a number of DNS servers provided, such as Google, Cloudflare, and openDNS. Cloudflare maintains infrastructure on the internet to aid in its DNS services, whereas other DNS services use recursive DNS solving, which keeps asking servers until it gets answers. CloudflareDNS
• DHCP. DHCP is used to provide IP addresses to hosts. A server is used to assign these ips based on the information given to control the network. This plays a critical role in tightening security as well as ensuring devices on the network are not sharing tips with another device on the network. Microsfot DNS