I am working on my lab setup and running into issues. I am new to networking and pfsense.
I have an instance of pfsense running in VirtualBox hosted on my windows laptop (Laptop1).
I have that cabled into a small tplink switch.
I have another laptop (Laptop2) plugged into the switch.
pfsense is set up with a Host-Only adapter and NAT NICs.
I understand that the host only network is a network between the VMs and the host machine. Can I get the host machine on the lab network as well and how can I add Laptop2 to the lab network?
Right now on the switch interfaces both laptops are getting an APIPA.
Eventually I would like other hosts (Laptop3) VMs to get an IP from pfsense on Laptop1).
I have an Ubuntu server running samba ad and also managing local DNS. Maybe I bit off more than I can chew, but I have spent some time on this, I think I am close but obviously missing something.
