Good day all.
I am in need of some guidance please. I am a total noob when it comes to Proxmox and VM's.
I have worked through a lot of YT videos and some readable posts on Proxmox and VM type material but most of it honestly goes over my fireplace.
Here is a brief description of my current setup:
ISP has their own router to which I am not granted access but they are able to snoop my LAN and see every device on it without me really having any say in the matter.
I would like to have them see ONLY one device, I have a salvaged PC i79300K with 32Gb of RAM, I have an NVME 480Gb drive for Proxmox.
This PC has 1x onboard 1Gb ethernet port and I have installed a 1Gb PCIE ethernet card. Also, inside this case are 2x 1Tb SATA hdd's that I would like to be able to put movies on and then be able to watch them on my lounge PC via VLC I would run the file like from a normal server (does this classify as "streaming") sorry I am a noob to this in this respect.
I then also have a 24 port switch which everything else connects to. I have a Victron solar system that needs to connect to their (Victron's) cloud, and then also a shelly device for switching my geyser on and off remotely which also requires cloud access.
From what I have gathered, I will need 2 VM's, one PF or OPNsense, and then a VM like ubuntu or Linux mint or something similar with which to create a file server...
Is the above correct?
As for the router part I do not need to create a full on firewall as the ISP as far as I am aware takes care of all this already, I would just like to separate them from my internal LAN....
I would think a rule like drop all incoming traffic unless internally initiated would suffice but then again I am a noob so any advice would be welcome?
If there is an easier way please do tell me more...
P.S. I run linux mint inside my household on my personal and lounge PC, the wife unit has a salon with a windows PC...
Also, please note that I am in Africa, and as such just going out to "buy" a specific piece of hardware can become very expensive very quickly with a x18 or x19 style exchange rate to the USD. Therefor, when suggesting an answer please keep this in mind.
Then, as I am a monkey see money do kind of guy, I learn really well and retain information when learning visually, helping me understand what I need to do and why, are there any good YT video's on setting up the needed devices and VM's when it comes to my needs? I need to try and understand how Proxmoxe's routing works, how to set it up, and why setting it up in a prescribed way is then correct.
I hope this is not to much to ask?
Thank you to all in advance for your answers.
I am in need of some guidance please. I am a total noob when it comes to Proxmox and VM's.
I have worked through a lot of YT videos and some readable posts on Proxmox and VM type material but most of it honestly goes over my fireplace.
Here is a brief description of my current setup:
ISP has their own router to which I am not granted access but they are able to snoop my LAN and see every device on it without me really having any say in the matter.
I would like to have them see ONLY one device, I have a salvaged PC i79300K with 32Gb of RAM, I have an NVME 480Gb drive for Proxmox.
This PC has 1x onboard 1Gb ethernet port and I have installed a 1Gb PCIE ethernet card. Also, inside this case are 2x 1Tb SATA hdd's that I would like to be able to put movies on and then be able to watch them on my lounge PC via VLC I would run the file like from a normal server (does this classify as "streaming") sorry I am a noob to this in this respect.
I then also have a 24 port switch which everything else connects to. I have a Victron solar system that needs to connect to their (Victron's) cloud, and then also a shelly device for switching my geyser on and off remotely which also requires cloud access.
From what I have gathered, I will need 2 VM's, one PF or OPNsense, and then a VM like ubuntu or Linux mint or something similar with which to create a file server...
Is the above correct?
As for the router part I do not need to create a full on firewall as the ISP as far as I am aware takes care of all this already, I would just like to separate them from my internal LAN....
I would think a rule like drop all incoming traffic unless internally initiated would suffice but then again I am a noob so any advice would be welcome?
If there is an easier way please do tell me more...
P.S. I run linux mint inside my household on my personal and lounge PC, the wife unit has a salon with a windows PC...
Also, please note that I am in Africa, and as such just going out to "buy" a specific piece of hardware can become very expensive very quickly with a x18 or x19 style exchange rate to the USD. Therefor, when suggesting an answer please keep this in mind.
Then, as I am a monkey see money do kind of guy, I learn really well and retain information when learning visually, helping me understand what I need to do and why, are there any good YT video's on setting up the needed devices and VM's when it comes to my needs? I need to try and understand how Proxmoxe's routing works, how to set it up, and why setting it up in a prescribed way is then correct.
I hope this is not to much to ask?
Thank you to all in advance for your answers.
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