Home Lab - How to configure

cspalkar

Zimaboard ( 2 - Ethernet ports )
- pfSense
Mini-PC ( 6 - Ethernet ports )
- Promox / TrueNAS
  - Storage NAS
    - NFS
    - SMB Shares
  - Docker / Linux Containers
    - Usenet / Torrents download
    - Usenet / Torrents indexer search
    - Media server
    - Software Development
    - AI LLM hosting

The intention is to have the LAN port of pfSense to port0 of MiniPC, with the remaining ports used like an ethernet switch, which can pass on DHCP request received on these ports to pfSense for IP address assignment, where devices connected using these ports will be able to access the applications on Docker/Linux containers as the internet.

Please advise how this can be achieved.

Thanx

CSP

stephenw10

You can do that, you would need to add all the ports to the same bridge in Proxmox. Nothing to do with pfSense.

However a real switch would be better in almost every way.

cspalkar

@stephenw10 - Thank you

Question : Should the IP address assigned to the bridge be static ?

Thank you once again to helping this newbie

CSP

stephenw10

I don't know how Truenas would set that up but in Proxmox you could add an address to the bridge and use that to access Proxmox. It could be dhcp or static. I would probably leave it as dhcp and set a static dhcp lease in pfSense so it always get the same IP address.

Just to be clear though that is config in Proxmox it is not a bridge in pfSense.