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      Banana-man last edited by

      Hi, I'm not very good with Linux so have mercy please

      But I need a bit of help with my new Linux mint xfce PC with 2 network adapters and Virtualbox

      WAN is connected to one of the network cards of this PC
      I disabled the IP4 and IP6 configuration here to avoid that the PC can talk to WAN
      This WAN interface is connected in bridge mode to the Virtualbox pfsense VM, this works well
      But is this the proper way to connect WAN to a VM ?
      Is there a good guide out there somewhere on how to isolate WAN from the host OS ?

      The 2nd network adapter is of course LAN with IP 192.168.1.2 and gateway 192.168.1.1 (pfsense VM)
      This also works well, but I get disconnected from the host (192.168.1.2) if I shut down the pfsense VM (192.168.1.1)
      I guess because pfsense is the gateway

      Is there a way to remote connect to the PC with the gateway offline ?
      There is no mouse/keyboard/monitor connected to this PC

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        JKnott @Banana-man last edited by

        @Banana-man said in Virtualbox question about isolating the WAN interface:

        I disabled the IP4 and IP6 configuration here to avoid that the PC can talk to WAN

        What do you mean by that?

        PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
        i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
        UniFi AC-Lite access point

        I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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          Banana-man last edited by

          In Linux (mint) is set both IP4 and IP6 to nothing for WAN
          Now Linux doesn't get any WAN traffic

          It goes to pfsense first and comes back to LAN
          This works but I think I'm creating a mess

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