Now you should be able to access it via a browser.

To overcome this, enter menu option 8 for shell access and run “pfctl -d” to temporarily disable the firewall. Opening a browser to the WAN interface IP will fail as by default only access is granted via the LAN interface firewall rules block access via the WAN interface. We will configure the LAN interface later.

Now we have a static IP configured on the WAN interface. We will change this to a static IP of our choosing by using menu option 2 and answering the prompts. After a few moments you will be presented with a menuĪs can be seen above, pfSense has used DHCP on the WAN interface and got allocated an IP from my ISP provided router. Next there will be a prompt to enter names for the interfaces, enter vmx0 for the WAN interface and vmx1 for the LAN interface.

On opening a console, there may be a prompt to set up VLANs now, choose no. Next we must console in so we can configure the interfaces. In the previous lesson we installed pfSense from an ISO.

Pfsense home router