How do I get pfsense WAN IP after I set it up on DHCP?

fixit_fiona

I just installed a FreeBSD 64-bit virtual machine with pfSense 2.3.2 with VMware Workstation 12, but with VMware Workstation 11 hardware compatibility. I booted and standard-installed pfSense and got to the menu, as suggested by many guidelines I found online. I proceeded with assigning the 2 interfaces I had, a WAN and a LAN, then setting up their IP addresses. The LAN I set staticly and had no problem with, but the WAN I set with DHCP. After...

Originally asked by Mohamedali Hamdi on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

You can define an IP WAN manually on the shell menu of pfSense for reach the (via Wan or / Lan) webConfigurator. If I remember correctly, you can reach WebConfigurator by the WAN and LAN for the first time. After that you need to set it on the webConfigurator it's the easiest way to do that. If you virtulize your configuration u need a bridge access on you're Virtual Machine, don't forget that. :p

Full answer by Mayuri S: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1156024 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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