June 26, 20251 yr I bought a quad 10gbe x550-t4 network daughter card that I look forward to replace the dual 10gbe/dual 1gbe broadcom network daughter card. Purpose is virtual 10gbe pfsense VM under UNRAID for which two of the ports will be dedicated for pfsense, I'll use the third 10gbe port for connecting my unraid back to the Pfs ns VM.What steps do i need to follow for replacement? I have two VMs and numerous dockers. Any help is appreciated.
July 2, 20251 yr Community Expert is the host proxmox or unriad?If proxmox:Virtualizing UnraidView Proxmox VM Unraid Guide:as if its proxmox the pfsense VM would most likely have 2 interface setup as vrbr0 and vrbr1 both 2 separate interfaces and pfsense setup to use vbr1 as lan where vbr0 is the wan and gets a IP from proxmox...Look into forbidden router setups...https://forum.level1techs.com/t/psa-forbidden-router-make-two/190597 Edited July 2, 20251 yr by bmartino1 Data - Typo
July 2, 20251 yr Community Expert 20 minutes ago, mesencephalon said:The host is unraid, thanks for the proxmox infothank you apologies I misread a pfsenase as proxmox.a bit harder to do in unraid unless your ok with passing the nic card and all ports into the PFsense VM.I attempted to go over similar setups in the past by making bridge interfaces to be used as a wan / lan and setting up a lan interface from a contoured VM as a docker network to go through the VM router.Can't seem to find my old unraid resources... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvH93ovezT8https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/re5r1k/pfsense_on_unraid/https://forums.unraid.net/topic/115277-how-to-setup-pfsense-vmware-on-unraid-os-with-2-nic-ports/ Edited July 2, 20251 yr by bmartino1 Data - Typo
July 2, 20251 yr Author x550-t4 card has 4 10gbe ports. I'll passthrough two of them to pfsense and use the remaining for unraid. problem here is i m not adding a nic, replacing it so I don't know how jntaid will react when i replace the card as unraid is not configured with the new card. Any guidance?
July 2, 20251 yr Community Expert 4 hours ago, mesencephalon said:x550-t4 card has 4 10gbe ports. I'll passthrough two of them to pfsense and use the remaining for unraid. problem here is i m not adding a nic, replacing it so I don't know how jntaid will react when i replace the card as unraid is not configured with the new card. Any guidance?the question is (IF the 4 ports are all onthe same card) how are you passing the interfaces...To correctly pass a pcie device, you must VFIO bind the entire PCIE Card. So the only other solution is to have Bridge interfaces interact ont he host and pass over into the VM.(Which has its own security concerns...)Otherwsie you have to heavaily edit the VMs XML to target and use that interfaces (Not easily done...)My solution was lost on the forum (As I've done simlar inthe past and m,ovded on as I hit slackware unraid network limitations.Unraid is not networking equipment adn you will hit layer 2 /layer 3 isseus tryng to run a "Forbiden router" in Unriad.The guidance I have is to get a seperate pcie device and VFIO Bind that interface ot the VM. (this is the correct secure and safest way to do this properly..The improper way is to mkae our own br interfaces assigning the interface adn then editng the xml to target our made br interfaces...That data is lost onthe forum and I'm not going to go over thatt again as i htis caveots, gotchas and other isseus...Mostly in how unraid and systemctl handle ipv4 and ipv6 forwarding...So my guidance is get another nic for the VM only and pas the entire nic into the VM.
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