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    How many bridges needed for pfSense vm?

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    • E Offline
      eiger3970
      last edited by eiger3970

      I have pfSense virtualised on my LXC and it runs okay.
      However, someone suggested 2 bridges aren' t needed, rather 1 bridge. I am not quite clear why 1 bridge would suffice, any suggestions please?
      My network topology is in this inserted image. alt text
      https://imgur.com/a/n9jKNuJ

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      • GertjanG Offline
        Gertjan
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        Image ?

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          eiger3970
          last edited by

          Sorry, looks like the 'insert image' option is buggy. I pasted the URL into the automatically generated brackets, but no good.

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          • GertjanG Offline
            Gertjan
            last edited by

            No URL or brackets needed.

            Try CTRL-C your image, and insert here using Ctrl-V
            (Cut and paste ....)

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              eiger3970
              last edited by

              The brackets are automatically added to the text, with a prompt to add the image’s URL, which I originally did.

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                Gertjan
                last edited by

                Using the capture tools from Windows ..... and Ctrl-V :

                0_1548678767548_f46986ac-abde-4b90-9ed8-3fe285590e2d-image.png

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                Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                  eiger3970
                  last edited by

                  0_1548689652295_c793a94c-ee53-42ef-9bb8-bc9c408c0195-image.png

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                    viragomann @eiger3970
                    last edited by

                    @eiger3970 said in How many bridges needed for pfSense vm?:

                    I have pfSense virtualised on my LXC and it runs okay.

                    On LXC? I'm in doubt.

                    You will need one bridge for each hardware interface you want pfSense connect to.
                    So since your pfSense vm should be connected to two interfaces, you need to add two bridges on your host.

                    One will be sufficient if you only connect internal vms to pfSense aside from WAN.

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                      eiger3970
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                      Ok, thank you for the clarification. The setup seems correct then.

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