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How to connect a physical Windows PC to a virtual PFSense router that runs on a virtual GNS3 network

I’m attempting to access a virtual PFsense devices web GUI that resides on a GNS3 virtual network, from my physical windows PC (where GNS3 is installed on). On the GNS3 VM I have ensured that the ...
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pfSense not working properly on Azure VNet? What do i do?

I'm currently working on a project based on creating virtual networks and configuring a virtualized firewall (pfSense) along with access control. I was given this project idea in a cybersecurity ...
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pfSense host DNS resolver not working in guest VM (Ubuntu or NixOS)

I was recommended to move this to superuser from servervault, hopefully it's appropriate for here. I'm a hobbyist / tinkerer using bhyve (in pfSense running on a physical machine) to start up a Linux ...
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Why Dhcp renewed ip address for some machines and not for the others

so this is the situation i'm trying to understand: The environnent is the following: a running personal laptop with dhcp on; a set of 4 VMS running in the same network @ range pfsense to manage dhcp ...
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Bridging a WIFI adapter in AP mode to a VM

Linux Mint, using hostapd I have a wifi adapter set up in AP mode. I have bridged a VMware virtual network to this wifi adapter and connected it to a VM running pfsense. Devices can connect to the AP ...
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PFSense Stuck At "Please wait while the update system initializes" while uninstaling or upgrading any package

I just had this weird problem on my PFSense VM. It neither can upgrade nor uninstall any package and is always stuck at Please wait while the update system initializes. I tried rebooting. Still no ...
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Give a VM internet access, but not access to other systems within the network?

Scenario: I have Ubuntu desktop with a Windows 8.1 vm via virtualbox. It has internet access and is currently set to NAT with it's own IP range. Putting it into bridged mode gives it an IP address ...
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pfsense with 4 WAN IP and outgoing NAT

I have a pfsense with a single wan ip, i want to assign multiple wan ip's. The pfsense machine is located on a vm machine with the other servers i wish to NAT forward. I want to give each server a wan ...
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Port forwarding remote traffic through physical router to go through pfsense VM, then to centos VM web server

I hope this makes sense, I'm completely self taught and planning on going for formal instruction. As I understand this is possible, however I haven't been able to find definitive answers to my ...
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