Running pfSense Firewall and Router in a Proxmox VM

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Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0689.html

What is pfSense?

pfSense is a firewall/router computer software distribution based on FreeBSD. The open source pfSense Community Edition (CE) and pfSense Plus is installed on a physical computer or a virtual machine to make a dedicated firewall/router for a network. It can be configured and upgraded through a web-based interface, and requires no knowledge of the underlying FreeBSD system to manage. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PfSense      01. Download the pfSense AMD64 .iso  https://www.pfsense.org/download/    02. Extract the downloaded pfSense .gz    03. Log into the ProxMox web UI    04. Select a storage from the left navigation pane to upload the .iso to    05. Select ISO Images in the left sub-navigation pane    06. Upload the pfSense .iso file to the ProxMox ISO image library    07. Right click the ProxMox node name ≫ Create VM    08. Type pfSense in the name field and set a unique VM ID ≫ Next    09. On the OS tab, set the Type field to Linux, Version to 5.x - 2.6 Kernel and select the pfSense .iso in the ISO Image field ≫ Next    10. On the System tab, leave the defaults ≫ Next    11. On the Hard Disk tab, set the Disk size field to 8 ≫ Next    12. On the CPU tab, set Cores field to 2, Type field to Host ≫ Next    13. On the Memory tab, set the Memory to 1024 and Uncheck Ballooning Device ≫ Next    14. On the Network tab, set the Model field to VirtIO (paravirtualized), Uncheck the Firewall box ≫ Next    15. Verify the summary and click Finish    16. Click the pfSense VM in the left navigation menu ≫ Select Hardware from the left sub-navigation menu    17. Click Add ≫ Network Device    18. Set the Model field to VirtIO (paravirtualized), Uncheck the Firewall box ≫ Click Add    19. Select Options from the left sub-navigation menu ≫ Double click Use tablet pointer ≫ Uncheck the Enabled box ≫ Click OK    20. Right click the pfSense VM in the left navigation pane ≫ Start    21. Click console in the left sub-navigation menu    22. Press Enter to Boot Multi- user    23. Select Install pfSense ≫ Press Enter    24. Select the keyboard mapping to use ≫ Press Enter    25. Select Auto (UFS) BIOS Guided Disk Setup ≫ Press Enter    26. Wait for pfSense to copy files and install    27. At the Manual Configuration prompt select No ≫ Press Enter    28. Select Reboot ≫ Press Enter    29. Navigate back to the Hardware options    30. Double cl ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_htxX1v_Ts