pfSense/networking idiot needs help :)

[Ev0]

As title, I'm trying to setup an environment within VMWare workstation 10 that has multiple host only VMNets all connected to interfaces on a virtual instance of pfSense, with one NAT'd VMNet acting as the WAN interface.

Now the first LAN interface on pfSense is working fine, it can get out to the internet, see all the other pfSense interfaces etc.

But none of the other interfaces (which are OPT interfaces) seem to be working as I'd expect, i.e. like the LAN interface.

I'll be the first to admit I'm a bit lost with this, but any ideas from what I've said as to what might be wrong? What information would be helpful to work this out?

I need to be able to connect from one interface to another on the internal virtual network side, and also get out to the internet through the WAN interface on pfSense.

Does any of that make sense to someone?

 

[Ev0]

Cheers I'll have another play today and see what happens, my config appears to be the same as a colleagues that works fine but there's obviously something wrong with it!

He's not free to help until tomorrow so will have another go myself today.

 

[Ev0]

Just to follow up, I redid my pfSense VM from scratch, set it up the same way with the same interface config and firewall rules etc, all worked this time.

Very weird!

All I've done is assign IPs to each of my interfaces, and added firewall rules in to allow traffic between them.