Simultaneously running pfSense & FreeNAS

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Dear ProxMox Community,

I'm in taking part in an event where I've been put in charge of setting up some basic networking infrastructure. The network I'm implementing is part of a larger local network.

I wanted to know if you guys could tell me how to configure ProxMox with pfSense and FreeNAS in order for both guests (pfSense & FreeNAS) to run at the same time.

This is the setup I'm looking for: Box that boots into ProxMox. Box has 2 NICs. ProxMox has pfSense and FreeNAS as guests. NIC #1 receives an address from a static IP from the larger network. Once ProxMox is started and pfSense is loaded, I want pfSense to handle traffic from a switch connected to NIC #2 and send it to the internet (at NIC #1) through NAT or something similar (maybe a bridge?). FreeNAS will run (unsure of the NIC location) beside pfSense.

Could you guys maybe help me with some details of this configuration? Running a fileserver beside the router would really ease up some of our budget limits.




Essentially, how do I run pfSense as my router (handling switches, clients, APs) and FreeNAS as my fileserver simultaneously on a ProxMox box?

Thank you for your time!
 
Hi,
pve can handle a lot of VMs simultanously, so I don't unserstand your question. Simply create an VM with pfsense, and another for the fileserver.

I'm not sure if FreeNAS runs without trouble in a vm, but there are other Nas-distros (take a look at openattic.org) which are running well.

Udo
 
udo said:
Hi,
pve can handle a lot of VMs simultanously, so I don't unserstand your question. Simply create an VM with pfsense, and another for the fileserver.

I'm not sure if FreeNAS runs without trouble in a vm, but there are other Nas-distros (take a look at openattic.org) which are running well.

Udo
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My question is more about how I configure the NICs in PVE for them to work with pfSense.
 
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