If you follow this video to set up pfSense, you cannot access the WebConfigurator after installation.
This is because of two reasons:
1. The LAN is left configured as a 192.168.x.x address.
2. The firewall is turned on by default.
3. The firewall for the WAN interface blocks private networks and loopback addresses - 192.168 is one of these.
You can access the GUI initially by going into the shell and turning off the firewall with pfctl -d.
The other thing to do is to change the LAN ip address and set up the firewall to allow HTTP to this address.
The setting is:
Blocks traffic from IP addresses that are reserved for private networks per RFC 1918 (10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16) and unique local addresses per RFC 4193 (fc00::/7) as well as loopback addresses (127/8). This option should generally be turned on, unless this network interface resides in such a private address space, too.
So you cannot use anything starting with
10.x.x.x or
172.16.x.x or
192.168.x.x
If you change the IP address it is prudent to restart pfSense.
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