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Thank you for your very helpful reply. You helped me clear up where I was getting stuck, I was imagining I could do all of this in proxmox alone but it makes sense that I need to manage things like the separate interface within pfsense. I was thinking of using VLANs so I could keep as many...

I'm fairly stuck with this but will update this thread as I work towards an answer, perhaps at some point an answer that could help someone looking at the same thing in the future. I tried creating a VLAN for the proxmox management IP and set vmbr2 to vlan aware like this: auto vmbr2.1 iface...

I suppose to ask this in a simpler way: should I have any concerns (security or otherwise) about running this setup with the configuration above or is it fine? Here is the blog post with concerns about virtualised router/firewalls: Things That Make Pat Nervous: Running Your Firewall in a...

Hi everyone Sorry if my questions or terminology are a bit basic, I am starting from a low and totally self-taught knowledge base. For fun and education I am trying different home router and server setups on a small 4 NIC embedded PC. For now I have proxmoxve hosting a pfsense VM...