Hey!
So I live in Australia, so I have to run through DSL and I was considering making a Pf sense router out of an old laptop or a desktop and I was wondering if there is a way of doing it on a DSL connection, especially considering the fact I need a DSL connection Because Australia.
Thanks!
Nothing special required, the connection would be an Ethernet cable between your DSL modem and your switch, router or directly to a PC. You will need at least two NICs on your PC, one in one out. If you want to practice, first set it up in virtualbox or vmware.
If you're a noob, PFSense can be a bit daunting. Alternatives, UnTangle very easy graphical interface (some paid for features) and ipcop is very light weight.
Yeah righto thanks, I am pretty sure I know enough about networking for it, I just wasn't sure if that would work, thanks mate
I'm in Australia and use DSL with PFSesnse and it's just like @Geoff says, just stick your modem in bridge mode and connect it to the WAN interface on your pfsense machine, then set up your PPPoE settings the same as you would with another router.
If you're planning on using a VPN on pfsense you may run in to some trouble with the connection crashing all the time, this is caused by the arpinger service which measures the connection quality and switches or restarts the WAN interface when the quality is bad. VPN over PPPoE causes a lot of fragmentation and apinger will detect the quality as bad and reset the connection. The easiest way to fix this is to disable arpinger but you can also change the tollerance range in the routing menu.
That's for setting up a PPPoE server, he wants to set up PPPoE on the WAN interface.
My mistake, well spotted!