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    Help needed installing pfSense on ProxMox server

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      cletus8
      last edited by

      Hello everyone!!

      I have finally decided to install ProxMox on my box. By now, i just want to have pfSense and CentOS virtualized on the box.
      pfSense will be running as firewall obviously, plus DHCP / NAT (it will act as a router).
      CentOS will be running apache, bittorrent, and some extra applications.

      I want pfsense to be directly connected to the internet (one of the NICs, eth0, will be connected to the modem). And Centos to have a private IP address leased by the pfsense's DHCP server.
      Also, i want the eth1 to be the internal network NIC. it will be connected to a switch and the hosts connected to that switch will get their IP addresses through DHCP (pfsense server).

      I made a little schema of what i want to accomplish. I hope its understandable:

      The problem is that i have NO idea of how to configure proxmox.
      Could you help me?  :D

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        valshare
        last edited by

        Hi,

        i have 100% your shema (and more ;-) here running. You must configure the two bridges in proxmox. One for the DMZ and one for the internal network.

        Here is an example from my /etc/network/interfaces

        
        ## this is for the internal network
        auto vmbr0
        iface vmbr0 inet static
                address  192.168.1.3
                netmask  255.255.255.0
                gateway  192.168.1.1
                bridge_ports eth0
                bridge_stp on
                bridge_fd 0
        
        ## this is for the DMZ - Pfsense
        auto vmbr10
        iface vmbr10 inet manual
                bridge_ports eth1
                bridge_stp off
                bridge_fd 0
        
        

        Now create the cenos and assign one network interface to vmbr0
        Create the pfsense machine an assign to network interface to it. One to vmbr0 and the dmz/modem to the vmbr10

        Valle

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