I had given up the idea of pfsense VM but i decided to try it again. So now i have setup pfsense VM with DHCP server working fine to internal VM and external devices.

So i have 5 ports. eth0 - standalone unraid management, eth1 - WAN, eth2 - LAN, eth3 - wifi AP, eth4- towards unraid management.  Yes i have, cable from eth4 to eth0 for Unraid management.. Pfsense is aware of only eth 1 - 4.

 

Issue 1: But the problem is that the Windows VM created does not able to reach the internet or hold the IP address. What i mean is that I started Win 10 VM(not activated yet) and the IP was received and i was able to ping external(internet) and intranet IPs. But when i oprn the browser i cannot access anything, i.e, www.google.com or www.yahoo.com.

Any idea why? How can solve this?

 

Issue 2: Also i left the VM on for overnight, in the morning the IP was not anymore from the default pool , 192.168.1.x, it was of some 169.x.x.x subnet. And i was not able to reach the gateway even though the ipconfig showed the correct ip for gateway. I am assuming the IP is lost because pfsense did not reissue the ip, but i am not sure if that is so. But any recommendation to check where the problem could be ?  I have am yet to try with other linux based VM to check the this behavior..<SOLVED>

 

Issue 3: I have transmission plugin installed in Unraid. I am not sure how to use it now. I use the transmission plugin gui from my pc to connect to it before i set up the pfsense VM which was single IP. But now the eth0 ip is not connected to internet, as i have rule for traffic to flow only between eth 2 to eth 4(eth0). So should i allow the traffic to internet for it work ? or is there any other way?

 

P.S: i know pfsene VM is not a good idea. But i want to try and make it work.

Edited March 19, 20179 yr by vinay

Anybody .. Looks like the its DNS issue.. but does not make sense since cmd line ping to www.google.com works but not through IE browser...