In Chapter 2, Preparing a Test Environment, you created the pfSense virtual machine, so now we will configure it. Start up the virtual machine. Press I to proceed with installation. Use the following settings, in sequence where appropriate, when prompted:
Accept these Settings
Quick/Easy Install
OK
Standard Kernel
Reboot
Once the machine reboots, you will be presented a screen of the possible options for the configuration of the machine. You should see that the machine has been configured with the two interfaces, one (NAT) is set via DHCP, and the other has been set by the installer as 192.168.1.1
. An example of this is shown in the following image:
This shows that the internal interface is set at the wrong address and is not what we want since we configured the switch...