Is it possible to get unraid server to use an internet connection from a VM?

[k2e2ni]

Hi All,

 

I have seen any other post about this, but could have missed it due to the search terms. 

 

Is it possible to get the server to use an internet connection from a VM? My server can't currently connect to the internet because it requires a VPN on the network it is connected to, but I have not been able to find a way to install the app (Pulse Secure) for it. It's settings also seem to be too different to be able to use OpenVPN and such as on a Ubuntu VM I can get it to connect via PulseSecure but not OpenVPN.

I have been physically moving the server to a regular network with full internet connection in order to update it's plugins and the OS but it is becoming a huge chore and it means I am frequently outdated and miss all the notifications. I have a VM running windows with the appropriate settings and app to allow it to connect to the internet but don't know how I can get the server to use that.

 

Thanks for any assistance.

 

Cheers,

[trurl]

There are people running pfsense in a VM and then using that connection. I am not really familiar with the details but it might give you some ideas.

[k2e2ni]

On 2/22/2018 at 9:58 PM, trurl said:

There are people running pfsense in a VM and then using that connection. I am not really familiar with the details but it might give you some ideas.

As I understand pfsense is a standalone OS to serve as a router right? Not really sure how that would work.

 

My main issue at the moment is that Windows is the most straightforward way to enable the internet connection, so if I need to now setup the weird VPN in pfsense it may be even harder to try and figure out.

[tdallen]

If you can't get pfsense to make the VPN connection (which would be ideal), a Google of router software for Windows does turn up some virtual router type of solutions.  That's what I'd be looking into - router software to work within your Windows instance that will expose an internal network and use the VPN as its uplink.