Subj : Re: Odd days at the Lab
To   : MeaTLoTioN
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Aug 28 2025 07:42:58

-=> MeaTLoTioN wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 Me> Have you considered running pfSense in a VM? That's what I do =)
 Me> Virtualised my router, got an ethernet cable from the hole in the wall
 Me> to my hypervisor on a nic I don't let VM's use or the host, and pass it
 Me> through to the pfSense VM, as the WAN, then bridge the main nic and let
 Me> that be the LAN for pfSense.

 I've thought about it; not sure I want my routing depending on my
 homelab hardware. I have a Dell USFF system I picked up that I
 might use for that if I needed more than I can get with OpenWRT. It
 has one onboard NIC and I have a PCI NIC with a low-profile bracket.

 Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda... When we closed an office after COVID, I
 packed up all of the gear and sent it back to our home office. I should
 have kept the lime-green 1U box that was running PFSense - had a bunch of
 NICs in it.


 
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