So I’ve been trying to set up a little network. I have an Ubuntu Machine running PfSense through Virtual Box. On the VM I have 3 network adapters, one bridged adapter to my main network (WAN), one bridged adapter to a physical ethernet port which connects to an external switch (LAN), and a “Host Only Adapter” (OPT1).
What I want is to be able to connect to the host (OPT1) from the external switch (LAN). From both the host and the PC I have on the switch, I can connect to the PfSense router. I’ve setup the OPT1 and LAN as a bridged connection in PfSense and set firewall rules in OPT1 and LAN allowing connections from * to *. However, I still can not see the host (OPT1) from my other PC (LAN). Here are my settings.
Could you guys help me figure out what I’m doing wrong?
I have a similar setup, excepting I have two interfaces, OPT1 and OPT2, which comprise my physical and virtual interfaces respectively. All VMs connect via a bridge on the hypervisor that interfaces with PfSense via vtnet0, and all physical connections occur via a switch interfacing with PfSense via bce1.
There are two settings under System -> Advanced -> System Tunables: net.link.bridge.pfil_member and net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge which should be toggled to work with the firewall (I’ve forgotten the actual reason):
