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    pfsense with 4 public IPs - how to?

    Hi there, My ISP changed my router two days ago and gave me four public WAN IPs (x.x.169.149-x.x.169.152). So I want to run multiple proxmox hosts where the VMs use these 4 WAN IPs. I've installed pfsense on one proxmox host, which works on the main WAN IP (x.x.169.149). But I need to...
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    Bridge NIC Passthrough for use in LXC

    Hi to all, After struggling with briding WAN/LAN in pfsense/OPNSense VM I decided to use NIC passthrough for my LAN interface. I had heavy packet loss when using bridge LAN interface in pfsense/OPNsense, this topic on reddit gave me hints and I had no more issues after using NIC passthrough for...
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    [SOLVED] Execute host command after starting guest.

    ref: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-to-pass-vlan-0-priority-tags-to-pfsense-for-dhcp.112374/ I need to set a bridge flag to pass certain traffic to the vm. The problem is the bridge does not exist until *after* the vm is started. echo 8 > /sys/class/net/fwbr105i1/bridge/group_fwd_mask...
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    pfSense on two or more machines in one cluster

    Hello, I'm new to this with virtualisation and networking so I'm sorry if this question has been answer already, since I'm not able to search for the correct post. I have a cluster of two pve nodes and I have a pfSense VM installed and configured on one of the nodes with a virtual network...
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    Proxmox Pfsense in VLAN cannot access from external pc connected with managed switch

    i'm trying running pfsense/opnsense on proxmox in a single nic pc and a managed switch. I configured a single VLAN aware bridge to my physical port enp6s0. i added two network devices vtnet0 (tag=2) for LAN and vtnet1(tag=100) for WAN. i gave LAN static ipv4 192.168.1.3 . My physical managed...
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    USB ethernet adapter and Kali Linux virtual machine

    Hello! I am trying to set up a Kali Linux virtual in my home lab for use with a mirrored port, or multiple mirrored ports and wireshark. I used this video to set up proxmox and Kali Linux: https://youtu.be/_u8qTN3cCnQ My issue is that I have one ethernet port on my Laptop, and have another...
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    nftables vs pfSense

    I am planning on configuring a single public IP dedicated server at OVH, every how-to I have read describes using pfSense, I am not against using pfSense, however I like to keep things simple, secure and reliable. So, I can't help but wonder, how will things go, if instead I install nftables...
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    PfSense VLANs through Cisco Switch to Proxmox

    Hi, so my previous setup was having a physical pfSense machine as a router and firewall for my home network (192.168.0.0/16) and a virtual pfSense instance in Proxmox for all my lab machines (10.10.0.0/16). When adding a new network, I simply created a new vmbridge and added it to the pfSense...
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    New vm can't configure package manager

    Hello everyone, i'm facing an installation issue. I'm running proxmox and trying to run a small homelab, I managed to install a pfsense on my host with wan/lan interfaces on vmbr1 and 2 (I kept vmbr0 as proxmox wan interface) and it has full access to internet. I set up a few iptables rules for...
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    Pfsense virtualized on proxmox vlan setup help

    Hello everyone, I do have proxmox version 7.4.3 and pfsense latest version, virtualized. The hardware on which promox is installed has a lot of nics, but I can actually use only 2 nics, mainly for how my house and cabling is set up. So, I intend to use vlans on my pfsense lan to segment the...
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    Passthrough NICs to pfSense VM

    Hello, Sorry to ask a daft question... I'm trying to set up pfSense for managing some devices (mainly scientific equipment) connected to a LAN but also requires access to the internet for initial set-up and updates etc. I'm using an old Supermicro server that has two NICs. One is attached...
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    [SOLVED] Proxmox and pfSense

    I've spent almost an entire day with no progress so I thought I would try here. I have a VM in Proxmox VE 7.3-4 running pfSense 2.6.-RELEASE. That VM has two Linux Bridges assigned to it with the "WAN" being my regular network (192.168.1.0/24) and the LAN being a different bridge...
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    i/o error on pfsense VM after a couple of days of uptime

    I am seeing my pfsense VM I am hosting go into a status of "i/o-error." It has been happening every couple of days. I have to suspend the VM then start the VM back up to get it to come back online, which is does for another couple of days but then will randomly go back into an error state again...
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    Proxmox management interface and pfsense

    Hello everybody and happy holidays :) I got an intel nuc 10th gen with 1 ethernet and 1 wifi card, my goal is to install pfsense and use it as router for my real hardware pc/consoles etc as well for my vms. I got a USB type C 2.5gbps nic and passed it to the pfsense vm but here is my problem: My...
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    [SOLVED] Modify a linux bridge

    Please bear with me I am very new to proxmox and linux in general. I installed proxmox a couple of months ago, created some vms and lxc and everything is going great. By default proxmox created a Linux bridge (vmbr0) using the network card on my motherboard enp7s0. After reading about pfSense I...
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    Pfsense in Proxmox with 1 NIC

    I've installed Proxmox with some virtual machines running and installed a Pfsense virtual machine and connected the traffic of all virtual machines through Pfsense, but then I cant connect to my virtual machines that are now in a different subnet, I can access to the Pfsense web page through wan...
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    [TUTORIAL] Installing an Open Source Firewall on Proxmox-VE 7.3

    DynFi company is a Proxmox-VE partner and also the developer of the DynFi Firewall, a new, modern Open Source Firewall. Since Proxmox-VE and DynFi Firewall are very complementary, we thought that It would be nice to provide end-users with a Screencast detailing the steps required to create a...
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    USB NIC for alternate login to single NIC host

    Hello all, I'm setting up a mac mini 6.2 (late 2012 Corei7) as a proxmox host. It has a single NIC, and I'm going to attempt to run pfSense in a container as a 'router on a stick' via its connection to a level 2 switch. I fully expect to fall on my face while setting up the trunk to the switch...
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    Trying to access media server on pfSense LAN

    Hi I have setup pfSense, I only have one NIC I have created a bridge in pfsense vmbr0 and a LAN connection vmbr1 the ip address of my LAN is 10.10.10.1/24 I have installed sonarr and set the ip address of the container to 10.0.0.5 when I try to connect to the sonnar container...
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    Host cannot access Internet and unable to access Proxmox GUI from pfSense

    I bought a pfsense box with 6x2.5 gb nics and I'm trying to run pfsense in a vm on my proxmox server this is my current config: - I have the wan (172.16.10.2) set to vmbr1 which is the lan (172.16.10.1) of my openwrt vm which gets its connection via cellular modem - I have vmbr2 set in pfsense...

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