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pfSense and 2wire

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rayv

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Does anyone have experience with getting an pfSense to work with an AT&T 2701HG-B Gateway? I hard put the 2wire in into bridge mode, turned off routing, set pfSense for bridge mode using PPoE username and password but I can not connect to the internet from any computer nor can I ping outside of the network to the internet on the pfSense box or any other computer on my network.

I have followed documentation for putting the 2wire into bridge mode here: http://text.broadbandreports.com/faq/15835 and I have followed the documentation for pfSense firewall transparent mode here: http://pfsense.trendchiller.com/transparent_firewall.pdf with no success. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I might also add that I am using dynamic dns, have a windows 2003 server (running dns, dhcp, rras, pptp), a linux webserver running apache, my windows vista machine and FreeNAS.

Thanks.:confused:
 
I haven't worked with one of those 2Wire models in a while..I tend to want to throw those away. But I'd be going for, if the 2Wire is in bridged mode, you want PFSense in router/gateway mode...not transparent. The PFSense box will be doing the PPPoE and obtaining the public IP on its WAN interface, doing NAT.

Once that's setup, you can disable DHCP, uplink to your main network with your server doing the DHCP 'n DNS, etc.
 
You have to have at least one device configured as a router.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
I haven't worked with one of those 2Wire models in a while..I tend to want to throw those away. But I'd be going for, if the 2Wire is in bridged mode, you want PFSense in router/gateway mode...not transparent. The PFSense box will be doing the PPPoE and obtaining the public IP on its WAN interface, doing NAT.

Once that's setup, you can disable DHCP, uplink to your main network with your server doing the DHCP 'n DNS, etc.
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Okay. I installed pfSense with default settings and PPoE link is up but the 2wire is reporting the following:

Internet Connection Details
Connection Type: Direct IP (DHCP or Static)
Internet Address:
Subnet Mask:
Default Gateway:
Primary Domain Name Server:
Secondary Domain Name Server:
Domain:
Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU):
Gateway Ping: Waiting for IP information
DNS Communication: Waiting for gateway ping
Configuration Server Post: Waiting for DNS information

Is the 2wire supposed to optain an IP address? I still cant get outside of my network to the internet. I do have a question as far as DNS servers go in the pfSense box. Do I enter my internal dns server IP or my ISP's dns servers? I have tried both with no success. I think the problem is that the 2wire is not connecting to the internet but I could be wrong. I originally thought the pfSense box was supposed to be the new gateway and router and only using the 2wire for PPoE authentication on ATT's network.
 
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