Proxmox VM and Sophos Firewall Home

[andrewtaylor2211]

Hello,

This is my first time using Proxmox VE and I've installed it on an old PC. I have setup a VM with Sophos Firewall Home on it to act as my router/firewall/dhcp/dns/web filtering. But I cannot for the life of me work out how to setup the network connections for this. Sophos state I need two NICs which the PC has two physical NIC cards. One NIC will be for the WAN connection back to the modem and the other will be for the LAN connection. Can anyone help me with how to set this up in Proxmox so that the WAN NIC is setup correctly as my ISP issues the IP address dynamically and the LAN NIC is setup correctly as it goes to a switch which has an access point plugged in and several other wired connections.

TIA

 

[andrewtaylor2211]

Anyone help with this?

 

[Walery]

Hello,

This is my first time using Proxmox VE and I've installed it on an old PC. I have setup a VM with Sophos Firewall Home on it to act as my router/firewall/dhcp/dns/web filtering. But I cannot for the life of me work out how to setup the network connections for this. Sophos state I need two NICs which the PC has two physical NIC cards. One NIC will be for the WAN connection back to the modem and the other will be for the LAN connection. Can anyone help me with how to set this up in Proxmox so that the WAN NIC is setup correctly as my ISP issues the IP address dynamically and the LAN NIC is setup correctly as it goes to a switch which has an access point plugged in and several other wired connections.

TIA

Create two interfaces
1 is the internal LAN network
vmbr0 Linux Bridge (network device enp3s0 (yours may have a different name) static ip 192.168.1.1 (use your local network settings)
2 is the external WAN network
vmbr1 here select your second network card (enable autostart)

 

[andrewtaylor2211]

Create two interfaces
1 is the internal LAN network
vmbr0 Linux Bridge (network device enp3s0 (yours may have a different name) static ip 192.168.1.1 (use your local network settings)
2 is the external WAN network
vmbr1 here select your second network card (enable autostart)

Thank you, does there need to be any firewall rules set in Proxmox to prevent unauthorised access to the host and/or direct access to the WAN through the host?