I finally decided to buy a mini PC to make it as a pfsense router and I was wondering witch option is more suitable for my needs

First I was thinking of doing with proxmox so I could install pi-hole and wireguard in it but looking more into pfsense I see that there is PfblockerNG and also a Wireguard package that could be installed inside.

What does everybody in here use? I’m curious to know if thinkering in proxmox to run pfsense is more efficient than just installing bare-metal.

Thank you

Conclusion: will go with sole pfsense since I never used it in the first place, once accustomed will switch to proxmox, thank you everyone I hope there will be more posts like this in this platform

  • -RYknow
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    1 year ago

    I’ve run pfsense both ways. I’m currently running (and have been for a number of years now) running pfsense as a vm within Proxmox. I personally love it, but my setup is a little different then most. I have a dedicated server running promox strictly for pfsense (then have three Proxmox nodes for my cluster). I have a quad nic that I pass through to the vm and this has been Rock solid for years. I’ve not had a single issue.

    In my stack I’m also using PBS, and I love the backup process (and or restoring a backup). Have a dedicated Proxmox machine for pfsense means I can shut down servers in my homelab without taking the internet down.

    Running pfsense bare metal never gave me any issues, and going with a vm was more about the exercise of just doing it, and playing with pci pass through. Once it was setup and I setup the backups, it was a no-brainer for me to keep it running that way.