Hello all! And thank you in advace, but i need HELP!

[donkeydiq]

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

[sopex]

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.

[nero355]

I 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!

[BrandyWine]

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.

.........  and, ....... at least read all the official OPNsense documentation, as there's plenty to read.

[Nullman]

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

You need to invest more time in your home lab. And that could be a problem if you have full time job and family.

[donkeydiq]

well, it seems to be the trying to figure out how all of the nic's are named or addressed. im using 3 in total, neither of the sfp ports, i get the management working on proxmox, but then when i goto add lan and wan for opnsense it all falls apart. i have tried opnsense on bare metal and i am having the same issues, i setup ip passthough on my att router (which i think is the main issue). I just do not have any formal trraining. So i thought i would reach out to the forums before i put it in the microwave. i am trying to be autodidactic and piece together what i can to make it work.  i want o keep the proxmox layeer since it seems this lanner nca1515 is way over power for just running opnsense. and wanted to run other services along with opnsense.  Its just frusterating when i watch 100 youtube videos and these folks are getting it up and running in 10 minutes. and i cant even get it to work halfway. my gateway sits at 192.168.1.254, i set wan to dhcp, i use various ip's for lan and i cant get anything out of it. i have a goalake 8 portt poe switch that ships with 10.0.0.10, so i try that and nothing, i try 192.168.2.1 nothing, i plug unplug wait reboot reload rewrite rinse repeat conttemplate stapling my fingers together and try some more.  I have tried getting ai to help and that just makes a major mess of things