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18.7 Legacy Series / Absolute beginner failing to set up WAN
« on: September 07, 2018, 12:29:53 am »
Can somebody help an OPNsense absolute beginner who is tearing his hair out?
I have what I always assumed was a bog standard Internet connection: PPPoA with a username and password.
I don't know what to set where.
I worked my way through the Wizard. But there was nowhere for the username and password.
I found an option for PPP (which I assume means PPPoA) in WAN settings and entered my username and password.
There are places for IP addresses for things like gateway and DNS servers, but nothing makes it clear whether these options are for local or remote values. I've tried permutations all over the place but with no success.
When I choose PPP there's a dropdown for country. So I chose Britain (UK). But the ISP list is for cellphone providers (!), so I'm not sure if PPP is correct.
I do have a fixed IP address, but I believe that is assigned by the ISP once my router has logged in.
And now I think I've managed to delete something important -- I thought I was deleting an old WAN config, but it seems to have been the LAN config to allow web access, because now I can't connect to 192.168.1.1 !
My device -- Deciso OPNsense A10 Dual Core Desktop Gen2 DEC600 -- comes with a USB cable which "can be used to gain console access". But I have no idea what that means or how to use it.
Any help gratefully received. Thank you.
I have what I always assumed was a bog standard Internet connection: PPPoA with a username and password.
I don't know what to set where.
I worked my way through the Wizard. But there was nowhere for the username and password.
I found an option for PPP (which I assume means PPPoA) in WAN settings and entered my username and password.
There are places for IP addresses for things like gateway and DNS servers, but nothing makes it clear whether these options are for local or remote values. I've tried permutations all over the place but with no success.
When I choose PPP there's a dropdown for country. So I chose Britain (UK). But the ISP list is for cellphone providers (!), so I'm not sure if PPP is correct.
I do have a fixed IP address, but I believe that is assigned by the ISP once my router has logged in.
And now I think I've managed to delete something important -- I thought I was deleting an old WAN config, but it seems to have been the LAN config to allow web access, because now I can't connect to 192.168.1.1 !
My device -- Deciso OPNsense A10 Dual Core Desktop Gen2 DEC600 -- comes with a USB cable which "can be used to gain console access". But I have no idea what that means or how to use it.
Any help gratefully received. Thank you.