Complete Newbie having install problems...

[Dodgy Geezer]

Because:

1 - I know what I want, but I don't know how to specify it. I want a firewall providing vlans to a wired house network, a guest wi-fi, and a web server in a dmz, with some slight variation - eg guests to use the printer on the wired system.

2 - I also want to understand what I have set up, so I can troubleshoot and change as required, which means that I don't want someone to just give me a script.

Pursuing my Chinese analogy. it's as if I am buying from a shop where I don't speak the language. You have suggested that I point at the shelves for the item I want. But I can't buy lots of items that way and discuss their properties, including items which are not on display.

It's not a problem with OPNsense. It's a problems with the language used to administer it. A GUI is a universal language most people speak - the Linux command line and O/S structure is an excessive learning requirement when all you want is an application....

[Patrick M. Hausen]

OPNsense comes with a perfectly capable UI that lets you set up all of the items in your list without touching the command line even once.

Just find out which interface is assigned to LAN by trying each one in turn until "ping 192.168.1.1" works. Then proceed with the UI. There is almost never a need to use the console apart from initial installation.

[xman]

Thanks for this information

was trying to use console but GUI is for me

newbie here

already did firmware update:

88 updates installed  Jul 7, 2023

thank you