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qinohe

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Registered: 2012-06-20

Posts: 1,498

[Solved] Arch and virtual networking, not working as planned.

Running pfSense trough virtualbox, running virtual machines behind it.
What setup do I need, to get wireless LAN solely to pfSense. Currently I use the bridged setup in virtualbox as the WAN side. LAN is a host only adapter vboxnet0, all other VM's connect through that virtual adapter.
I would like to use a second host only adapter on a different subnet, but, once I create the adapter vboxnet1 and add it as second LAN card OPT1 to pfSense, internet stops working on the first LAN, though I can still ping google from the pfSense box.
How do I get Arch to not use the wireless connection but only the second host only adapter.
At the moment I use NetworkManager for the network.

Current setup (working):
Router –                                         192.168.1.1 
Arch bare hardware, main OS – 192.168.1.9   (wireless)
pfSense WAN -                             192.168.1.12 ( through wireless)
pfSense LAN  -                              10.10.2.1
host only adapter vboxnet0 -        10.10.2.3

I would like to add (not working):
pfSense OPT1 -                            10.10.10.1
host only adapter vboxnet1 -        10.10.10.3
But this fails for unknown reasons.

What do I miss, or should I do different, thanks in advance, Mark

Last edited by qinohe (2015-01-30 12:39:32)

qinohe

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2012-06-20

Posts: 1,498

Re: [Solved] Arch and virtual networking, not working as planned.

All is working well. I extended to four virtual adapters, one for the Arch host, and a wireless AP connected to eth0, bridged to pfSense. All applications on the host are finding the pfSense squid proxy, I have libproxy installed. Set the default gateway on the host to be the proxy of pfSense.

Now I can use my laptop to connect to insecure networks while not belonging to it, and host for friends at the same time, very nice