The issue I have isn’t about forwarding ports, it’s more of how I’m able to forward ports. The VMWare Workstation on NAT only allows me to forward a single port at a time which is extremely tedious. I understand that forwarding ports is required to expose services to the internet. So I’m trying to find a way to not use it. Bridged mode would be perfect if I could get it to work.
The pfsense situation seems perfect for what I need, the only problem I have is that it won’t bridge. (I tried the different options; replicating, and only selecting the nic that provides internet without any luck) I thought it didn’t work because I don’t have access to the hosts dhcp.
I believed that I needed a second IP for like what rs5th mentioned; One for management of the server, and the second to handle all the VM Network Traffic. When provided with the second IP, I’d set it up as a vNIC as a WAN going to pfsense, and a second vnic for the other vms. Exactly like how you described except from the bridging, seeing as I can’t get that to work.
Hi, thanks for replying! It’s an option that I can do, it would be a pain to start fresh but if it’s not needed then I’d rather not.
I can get it working at home, but I’m guessing that’s because I have a lot more control over my networking situation so I’d agree with you.
It’s for that kind of reason that I’m thinking that I might have to purchase an additional IP. Is the topology you mentioned similar to what was mentioned about using pfsense in earlier post?