Comment on Setting Up OPNsense on Proxmox: Doubts regarding NIC setup
Analog@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Fully support using opnsense buuut pfsense has a good guide for doing this exact thing. It works really well.
People recommending against proxmox don’t understand how good zfs is, but their points are valid for this being a sole point of failure. I virtualize pfsense to gain cluster advantages but tend to leave not too much else on that box.
If you don’t pass through the card the VM can more easily be restored to dissimilar hardware. But those ports are dedicated to the pfsense/opnsense VM, leaving the single free port for proxmox management and VMs. I would enable VLANs for network segments but if you either don’t have switches that support tags or are new to all of this it’s going to be WAY less headache to just use it all untagged for now. (Spend time on funner things, seriously!)
xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 22 hours ago I would enable VLANs for network segments but if you either don’t have switches that support tags or are new to all of this it’s going to be WAY less headache to just use it all untagged for now. (Spend time on funner things, seriously!)
Setting up VLANs will be my next project :D . Right now, my goal is to get this thing working.
I have messed up my timings a bit, so the dual NIC card is on the way from Amazon. I’ll post my results up here once it arrives.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Or maybe they do understand how good ZFS is, and since OPNsense is FreeBSD based, they use ZFS IN OPNsense.
OPNsense can make snapshots and restore them native from right inside the UI.
Which someone who used it should know.
Analog@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
I know that but don’t recommend FreeBSD for a newbie, whereas proxmox is Debian based and therefore has support far beyond what opnsense has. Plus the proxmox setup allows for far greater flexibility, at least on any level that is accessible to them.
Not even recommending against opnsense for the firewall vm.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 54 minutes ago
What part of my comment makes you think I was promoting FreeBSD? I was replying to the part where you said people should use OPNsense under a VM because of ZFS.
I was saying you can install OPNsense on bare metal and still use ZFS BECAUSE IT IS FreeBSD…