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It is a complex subject. pfSense is Open Source and IMNSHO the best Swiss Army knife of routers/firewalls. Download this: https://www.pfsense.org/download/ htt
by gerdesj 8y ago
It is a complex subject. pfSense is Open Source and IMNSHO the best Swiss Army knife of routers/firewalls.
Download this: https://www.pfsense.org/download/ https://www.pfsense.org/download/
Have a read of this: https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/ https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/
Hang out here: https://forum.netgate.com/ https://forum.netgate.com/
The VM is a router. Provided you ensure that traffic has to go through the VM and that the VM is able to route etc then it is a router 8) OP is using Linux whereas pfSense is FreeBSD based but pfSense is pretty much the only (near enough) turnkey product that does multi WAN and CARP properly. I should mention OPNsense as well here for fairness.
- ktta 8y agoI'm pretty sure this went over their head (don't intend to be mean). I believe they asked, what a VM actually stands for and what is means, rather than what it's for.
- gerdesj 8y agoFair enough. For a laugh I searched for "vm" and got a wikipedia article on virtual machines. GP did ask for rather a lot of clarification but then you (we) still have to allow for those times when someone just does not get it, despite everything. For example, I'm diving into Home Assistant, I don't think I'm daft but I ended up posting what turned out to be a really silly request for help because I was not a local and used to the scenery. I'd read all the docs, which I will soon subtly alter, but missed an implied (if you knew the system) point. How the heck do you describe what a VM router does, quickly? 8)
- Forbin 8y agoPfsense has problems when running in kvm.https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/virtualization/virtio-driver-support.html https://www.netgate.com/docs/pfsense/virtualization/virtio-d... and https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/7tsppj/pfsense_performance_issues_in_proxmox/ https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/7tsppj/pfsense_per...
- tjoff 8y agoWorks fine in xen and esxi though.