SO i am by no means a netwrok tech orr computer certified anything. But I have been sort of teaching myself linux and playing with SBC;s. Just kind of seeing where it takes me. SOO then I wanted to improve my home lab security with a firewall appliance, I did a little reading and i goot a lanner nca1515. The nicer one with 8 nics and 32 gb ram 500 gb drive intel denverton cpu. I cannot get the damn thing sertup, I have watched hours of videos, spent 40 hours beating my head against the wall. I am completely lost. I dont know whatr i am missing bhetween lan and wan. but im stuck and ready to break the thing. I have never posted in an eleectronics or network seecurity forum before but ill doo my best to include all of the things,
Gateway- At&T BGW320? Lanner NCA1515, goalake * nic POE smanged switch, I haVE my gaming rig running pop os, my mc book air, I have prox mox installed on the lanner bnox and opnsense spun up as a vm, like i siad i have no foormal teaching just what i am very slowly trying to learn. IT would be amazing if someone could give me a hand or point me in the right direction. But I caNT GET THE TO ROUTE TRAFFIC. I can get into the web UI, i make it through the wizasrd and theen thats it, no more,. and even when i can get back into the web ui it isnt activly rouitiign any traffic. the graphs and bars are barely doing naythign all my connected deevices just sit there and laugh at me, ANywayss. Thank you in advance
Does the firewall itself have internet access?
Also, since you are a beginner I would first try opnsense on the actual hardware, except if you already have proxmox experience.
Quote from: donkeydiq on June 09, 2026, 05:06:37 PMI am completely lost.
It seems your ENTER key got lost too :P
Anyways...
Read this : https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=44159.0
If you are going to continue with the Proxmox VM setup for OPNsense :)
The best thing you can do is read both the Proxmox and OPNsense Documentation and try to learn how everything works together.
There is no other way IMHO because when stuff stops working it's YOU who needs to know how to fix it!
Quote from: sopex on June 09, 2026, 05:28:05 PMDoes the firewall itself have internet access?
Also, since you are a beginner I would first try opnsense on the actual hardware, except if you already have proxmox experience.
......... and, ....... at least read all the official OPNsense documentation, as there's plenty to read.