Trying to setup a home network lab with pfsense- on kali box I cant connect to pfsense lansite

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pfsense

I did watch the itpro tv pfsense install instructions and network chuck's - but its not really enough-

I cant connect on my kali box to my pfsense firewall lan router via (all run on vm)

install with all defaults and not zf but bios on startup

In vbbox adapter 1 and enabled network and then bridged and my adapter is selected

adapter 2- enable and - attached to internal and my lan

I picked 192.168.0.2

I tried 2.2/2 also and a few other combos

(Do not choose the addresses at the beginning of a private range. Addresses like 10.0.0.1, 192.168.0.1, and 192.168.0.100 are commonly used by network routers and other consumer devices. ...)

1-24 i picked 1 and also 2

selection 1 assign1

vlan

picked lan

em0 is wan
em1 is lan

assigned interface lan only

no ip6
no dhcp
no httmp

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I did install it 5x and tried many different combos

I also tried to pfctl -d in shell - its off by default and I tried turning it on- no sure how

Also- On the kali box - vm on network talbe is adapter 1 and enabled and set attacked to internal network.

@Erik-Corradino,

Can you ping from your Kali Linux box to the internal LAN port that you setup for pfSense. This should be your default gateway on the pfsense box for your LAN.

When I start it up now dns resolver is frozen-- ill do another clean install

did reinstall and with stemp 1 of assign interfaces- a message did flash- network unknown or something like that.

I tried pinging from my kalibox and name or service is unknown-

my network to the internet does work-

@Erik-Corradino,

Try and put one of your pfSense ports to the same virtual switch as the one that your Kalibox is connected to.

Verify that you've setup your LAN interface in the same network as your Kali box...
if not you'll need t configure your network port on the pfsense box and on the kali linux.

not sure how to do that - any websites or links?

@Erik-Corradino,

What virtualization platform are you using?

oracle vb box

vb kali, network on side control panel, I have enable network and internal network and my lan

should I change this to bridge adapter and link it to my wifi router which is qualcom?

I went into vm and set -network, bridge adapter and not Lan and restarted and still didnt work--

I think something needs to be set somewhere- I just have to figure out what

@Erik-Corradino,

There's a bit of work for you to do if you don't know VirtualBox or setting up pfSense interfaces to work as a firewall.

You'll need to configure your pfSense firewall internal LAN port to be on the same virtual Switch as your Kali VM.

You'll need to configure another network adapter in pfense which you have to do at install and put that on a different virtual interface than the default to create your LAN interface. Then you'll need to configure that interface via pfSense to have an IP address and also to hand out DHCP or you'll have to statically configure your host manually with IP addresses that use the pfSense interface as the default gateway.
Then you'll have to configure NAT through pfSense to let LAN traffic get through to the internet.

probably some other things I didn't mention or have forgotten until I do it again.

Ill work on this- thanks

would it be easier for me to just purchase the hardware version?

@Erik-Corradino,

You'll have to purchase all your equipment.

There is no easy in setting up a home lab. That's part of the fun!