PFSENSE | Notion

Now create a new virtual machine and import the PFSense ISO in it. For this we need to set three network adaptors as shown below.

VMnet0 - is the firewall interface and it is a bridged type adaptor , so that we can get the internet access on it.
VMnet1 - is the Security Onion network adaptor.
VMnet2 - is the monitoring interface.

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Now power on the pfsense and do the installation.
After installation gets completed , you need to reboot the pfsense.
When it is back online from the reboot , try pinging any public IP address like ( 8.8.8.8 ) and check whether we are able to reach the internet via pfsense. It should work.
Note if you have IP address assigned to both WAN and LAN in pfsense CLI as shown below it means you have configured it correctly.

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If you see in the above screenshot the LAN IP is ( 192.168.1.1/24 ) and this because it is bridge to the host machine. We need to change that to ( 10.10.10.1 ) so that we can interconnect it will Security Onion and other internal interfaces as they are in ( 10.x.x.x ) IP range.
To do that select option 2 ( set interfaces IP address ) in pfsense → select LAN → Enter the needed IP address , in our scenario ( 10.10.10.1 ) and subnet mask is 24.
Then when asked to enable DHCP , enable it and provide the IP range from ( 10.10.10.2 - 10.10.10.253 ).
Then it prompts for reverting HTTP as the webconfigurator protocol → click yes.
That’s it , your pfsense appliance is ready. You can use the IP address to launch it.

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GUI CREDENTIALS:-

USERNAME : admin