Homelab: Router Step 2: pfsense basic install

This is a follow up post for Installing pfsense router on ESXi

if you mist the first post you can read it here.

The default ip for pfsense on the lan side is 192.168.1.1
I’m going to change this because I want it to be 172.30.1.1/16
I’m also going to enable DHCP on the lan side
After that I will do a initial config with the wizard

1. Go to the pfsense console menu and press 2 (set interface IP address)
   
2. Select 2 for the lan interface
   
3. Enter the ip adress you want your router to have I want it to have 172.30.1.1
   
4. Now the subnet you are working on. Mine is 16 or 255.255.0.0
   
5. Enter (y) to enable the DHCP server
   
6. We will need to enter a start and a en address for the address pool we want the DHCP to handle.
   
   My address pool will be between 172.30.1.240 and 172.30.1.254
7. To enable the webconfigurator enter (y) on the next question
   
8. Press Enter to apply the settings, you will be returned to the pfsense console menu.
   
9. Go to a test client (mine is a winows 7) that runs on the lan (in my case LAN-test) and run ipconfig in a command prompt, normally the client shood have received a IP address from the DHCP server. If not check if a static ip is configured (if it is the case change it to dhcp) and that you are on the correct network.
   
10. Open a webbrowser and point it to the address you configured
    Http://172.30.1.1 login with the following default credentials:
    Username: admin
    Password: pfsense
    
11. Click System -> Setup wizard to start a wizard to configure the basic settings for the router
    
12. Click Next to start the setup wizard
    
13. Change the Hostname to whatever you want your router to be named I chose vrouter
    Enter your domain I chose biolizards.local
    For the primary and secondary I chose to configure the public dns servers from google wich are 8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 you can also configure your ISP dns server here.
    
14. I’m leaving the default timeserver but I will cahnge the timezone to Europe\Brussels (UTC+1)
    
15. Only check if the SelectedType is DHCP for the WAN connection leave the rest as default
    
16. Confirm IP address an subnet that we entered
    
17. Enter a new webconfigurator password (in my case Bi0lizard$)
    
    
18. Click the reload button to save and apply all settings
19. Wait until the reload is done, you will be automatically be forwarded to the pfsense dashboard