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19.1 Legacy Series / Wifi access point does not have internet access
« on: April 10, 2019, 10:15:25 pm »
Hi
First of all, I am a newbie both on these forums and in the IT stuff. So if this is in a bad section, sorry in advance. But I hope I have found it correctly.
I got an old Asus EEE with an Intel Atom with a task to turn it into an wifi access point with its own set of IP adresses. I found opnsense so I downloaded a VGA image and started to work.
So far I have been able, with the help of opnsense manuals and other forum posts, to solve most of the issues. I now have an operational WAN with pass all rules on firewall. The device is responding to pings from the WAN interface and I can connect to it from my laptop by the ethernet port.
I was also able to create a WIFIinterface, set it to my liking (including selected channel, WPA2 password, etc.). I can connect to the WIFI both with my phone and the laptop. However, both devices show no internet access. I can see both devices from the opnsense GUI and they have an IP adress from the correct range (192.168.1.xxx) so the DHCPv4 is working.
I found that I forgot to correctly setup the gateway, so I did. I selected our department gateway for WAN and (here I guessed a bit) selected the netbook itself (192.168.1.1) as the gateway for WIFI (given that I was able to only select the gateway from the range of local adresses 192.168.1.xxx). The moment I pressed the apply button, my laptop showed "new wifi, is it home, office or outside?" prompt. So it did something, but I still cant connect to the internet from the WIFI. I cannot ping 8.8.8.8 or even our department gateway from the WIFI. The WIFI is isolated from internet (which is not good for a wifi accesspoint to internet). But I can connect to the GUI from the WIFI so it is working at least as a wireless local network. Using a verified IP adress from our department also doesnt do anything, so it probably is not a DNS issue.
For the last two days I was searching for internet guides, forum posts both for opnsens, pfsense and general IT networking. But I am still unable to find what is wrong or what did I miss and I am at the end, finding pages I already read with no progress.
I would like to ask for help on this issue, because as a total newbie IT guy I am at the end of my thoughts. I have been discussing this with a friend who is better at this, but even he is a bit lost in what could be wrong. I think it will just be one missed thing or one bad setting (maybe the 192.168.1.1 gateway for my 192.168.1.1 interface?). But I cannot find it on my own.
Thank you in advance for any advice, tips or even a discussion
First of all, I am a newbie both on these forums and in the IT stuff. So if this is in a bad section, sorry in advance. But I hope I have found it correctly.
I got an old Asus EEE with an Intel Atom with a task to turn it into an wifi access point with its own set of IP adresses. I found opnsense so I downloaded a VGA image and started to work.
So far I have been able, with the help of opnsense manuals and other forum posts, to solve most of the issues. I now have an operational WAN with pass all rules on firewall. The device is responding to pings from the WAN interface and I can connect to it from my laptop by the ethernet port.
I was also able to create a WIFIinterface, set it to my liking (including selected channel, WPA2 password, etc.). I can connect to the WIFI both with my phone and the laptop. However, both devices show no internet access. I can see both devices from the opnsense GUI and they have an IP adress from the correct range (192.168.1.xxx) so the DHCPv4 is working.
I found that I forgot to correctly setup the gateway, so I did. I selected our department gateway for WAN and (here I guessed a bit) selected the netbook itself (192.168.1.1) as the gateway for WIFI (given that I was able to only select the gateway from the range of local adresses 192.168.1.xxx). The moment I pressed the apply button, my laptop showed "new wifi, is it home, office or outside?" prompt. So it did something, but I still cant connect to the internet from the WIFI. I cannot ping 8.8.8.8 or even our department gateway from the WIFI. The WIFI is isolated from internet (which is not good for a wifi accesspoint to internet). But I can connect to the GUI from the WIFI so it is working at least as a wireless local network. Using a verified IP adress from our department also doesnt do anything, so it probably is not a DNS issue.
For the last two days I was searching for internet guides, forum posts both for opnsens, pfsense and general IT networking. But I am still unable to find what is wrong or what did I miss and I am at the end, finding pages I already read with no progress.
I would like to ask for help on this issue, because as a total newbie IT guy I am at the end of my thoughts. I have been discussing this with a friend who is better at this, but even he is a bit lost in what could be wrong. I think it will just be one missed thing or one bad setting (maybe the 192.168.1.1 gateway for my 192.168.1.1 interface?). But I cannot find it on my own.
Thank you in advance for any advice, tips or even a discussion