how to add the wifi

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how to add the wifi

suresh suresh

2011-09-01 13:48:23 UTC

Hi All,

how to add the wifi in pfsense. i am having the linksys home router.how to
setup wifi in the pf sense. please help me.

Thank you,

Regards,
Suresh

2011-09-01 13:52:17 UTC

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Post by suresh suresh
Hi All,
how to add the wifi in pfsense. i am having the linksys home router.how to
setup wifi in the pf sense. please help me.

Do you have a wifi card in your pfSense machine? Are you wanting it
to be a wireless client or an access point?

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suresh suresh

2011-09-01 14:12:41 UTC

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No,.. i dont have wifi card.if i configure the wifi router. that goes to the
differnt network. like am pfsense using 192.18.7.10 in wifi coonected
systemshows ip 192.168.1.1 at that time i cant take print or scan both will
come on 7.1 series. how to solve this problem.and also more question how to
block the bit torrent. am using pfsense 1.2.3.

Thank you,

Regards,
Suresh

Post by RB

Post by suresh suresh
Hi All,
how to add the wifi in pfsense. i am having the linksys home router.how

Post by suresh suresh
setup wifi in the pf sense. please help me.

Ryan Rodrigue

2011-09-01 14:24:57 UTC

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You probably need to login to the Linksys and take it out of router mode and
put it in AP mode. Or at least turn of DHCP on the Linksys and connect it to
the LAN port instead of the WAN port. If you don't have a wifi card, you
will not have any WiFi setting in PFsense.

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No,.. i dont have wifi card.if i configure the wifi router. that goes to the
differnt network. like am pfsense using 192.18.7.10 in wifi coonected
systemshows ip 192.168.1.1 at that time i cant take print or scan both will
come on 7.1 series. how to solve this problem.and also more question how to
block the bit torrent. am using pfsense 1.2.3.

Thank you,

Regards,

Suresh

Post by suresh suresh
Hi All,
how to add the wifi in pfsense. i am having the linksys home router.how to
setup wifi in the pf sense. please help me.

2011-09-01 14:26:59 UTC

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Post by suresh suresh
No,.. i dont have wifi card.if i configure the wifi router. that goes to the
differnt network. like am pfsense using 192.18.7.10 in wifi coonected
systemshows ip 192.168.1.1 at that time i cant take print or scan both will
come on 7.1 series. how to solve this problem.

It appears that you want pfSense to be the router with the Linksys as
a simple wireless access point. Just connect one of your Linksys LAN
ports to the LAN port on your pfSense system and turn off the DHCP and
DNS servers on the Linksys. You should also configure the Linksys to
have an IP in the same address range (192.168.7.0/24) as the pfSense
box so you can connect to it.

Post by suresh suresh
and also more question how to block the bit torrent.

You've already asked this question here once, and I specifically
ignored it because I'm not interested in it - someone else may answer
the question. Blocking bittorrent isn't trivial, nor is it useful in
my opinion.

Post by suresh suresh
am using pfsense 1.2.3.

You REALLY should use one of the 2.0 release candidates. Version
1.2.3 is supported, but unless you have a serious reason to stick with
it, 2.0 is equally stable and has far better features.

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Ernst den Broeder

2011-09-01 14:16:49 UTC

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Normally I install DD-WRT firmware on Linksys and then configure it as
an access point (turn off dhcp server, disable routing, assign WAN
port to LAN, etc).

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:48 AM, suresh suresh

Post by suresh suresh
Hi All,
how to add the wifi in pfsense. i am having the linksys home router.how to
setup wifi in the pf sense. please help me.
Thank you,
Regards,
Suresh

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suresh suresh

2011-09-01 14:22:08 UTC

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ok..please help me. how to block the bit torrent in pfsense 1.2.3

Thank you,

Regards,
Suresh

Post by Ernst den Broeder
Normally I install DD-WRT firmware on Linksys and then configure it as
an access point (turn off dhcp server, disable routing, assign WAN
port to LAN, etc).
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:48 AM, suresh suresh

Post by suresh suresh
Hi All,
how to add the wifi in pfsense. i am having the linksys home router.how

Post by suresh suresh
setup wifi in the pf sense. please help me.
Thank you,
Regards,
Suresh

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Ryan Rodrigue

2011-09-01 14:31:49 UTC

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ok..please help me. how to block the bit torrent in pfsense 1.2.3

Thank you,

There is not a 100% definite answer to this. What I do is open the ports I
need (80 for http, 25 for smtp, ect and then put a block all rule below
these. This usually works for 99% of the bit torrent traffic. The problem
is that PFsense blocks based on ports, bit torrent can be intelligent and
change ports. You could also do the traffic shaper and put bit torrent in a
very low spped queue, but I have never tried that.

2011-09-01 14:35:46 UTC

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There is not a 100% definite answer to this. What I do is open the ports I
need (80 for http, 25 for smtp, ect and then put a block all rule below
these. This usually works for 99% of the bit torrent traffic. The problem
is that PFsense blocks based on ports, bit torrent can be intelligent and
change ports. You could also do the traffic shaper and put bit torrent in a
very low spped queue, but I have never tried that.

pfSense 2.0 has the capability to categorize traffic at "layer 7", but
even that isn't foolproof against bittorrent.

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Ryan Rodrigue

2011-09-01 14:43:34 UTC

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Post by Ryan Rodrigue
There is not a 100% definite answer to this. What I do is open the
ports I need (80 for http, 25 for smtp, ect and then put a block all
rule below these. This usually works for 99% of the bit torrent
traffic. The problem is that PFsense blocks based on ports, bit
torrent can be intelligent and change ports. You could also do the
traffic shaper and put bit torrent in a very low spped queue, but I have never tried that.

pfSense 2.0 has the capability to categorize traffic at "layer 7", but even that isn't foolproof against bittorrent.

You are correct. I haven't played with these features yet. My method works for me and I think it is a good method in general. Allow what you need, Block everything else. Yes, It gets aggravating sometimes, but it also helps prevent the next dumb thing the users decide to try.
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