Pfsense in Proxmox as a Firewall for all my home network

lumox

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I finally managed to install Proxmox VE 6.2-4 on one of my old PCs which has two NICs. I then installed a linux and a Windows VM machine in it, which now get their IPs from my ISP router's dhcp server. Ok, everything works flawlessly so far.

But, I now want to change my home network and come up with something like this:

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So, the Pfsense VM in Proxmox should work as a firewall/dhcp-dns server both for the VMs in Proxmox and for the rest of my physical Network.

I don't know if I got everything right or missed something in my project. I will probably need to set up two VNIC for pfsense too. I also don't know if I need one more Virtual switch to make the network work properly.

Could you help me to figure it out please? Thanks
 

Very informative!
Anyway, I had to go for a slightly different configuration.
I had to add one more Vmbr to make my phycal switch/AP work, connected to VMBR1 my two VMs, then a switch to the physical port.
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Proxmox still get its IP from my ISP router. I need to test it a lot before switching to my new Home LAN.
Everything seems to be working flawlessly so far.
Now, it is something like this:


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Thank you very much indeed.
 

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