How to install on ESXi?

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I am looking for a new firewall and read a good article on ipfire.

Just to have a look etc I want to install on ESXi - I understand the reasons not to, but this is just to see how easy it is to use etc.

I am having no luck using the ipfire ISO, can anyone please help with the settings to use in ESXi 7?

Any assistance appreciated.

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Which settings are you using?

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I have tried a couple of changes. Right now it’s at:

Ram - 4GB, HDD 32GB thin, 2 x LAN., SCSI VMware Paravirtual
OS Linux, Version - Other 4.x or later (64-bit)
Boot from the ISO - ipfire-2.29-core 183-x86_64.iso

EFI Virtual disk (0.0)… No Media’
EFI VMware Virtual SATA CDROM Drive (0.0)… Not Found
EFI Network… No Media
something else, then it jumps to Boot Manager.

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UEFI is disabled?

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It wasn’t, that is just the clue I needed - thank you very much.

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That may be the end of my journey however.

It appears that ipfire isn’t designed to handle multiple subnets on a single NIC.

I currently have 3 subnets coming in from the WAN connection.

Is this at all do-able with ipfire?

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IDK if currently IpFire supports multiple WAN/RED. I had to change distro when I needed that few years ago (core 140-ish)

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What did you change to?

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@modal, just a question. How are your ‘subnets’ connected to the NIC?

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The LAN NIC has a main IP then there is a virtual IP for each subnet gateway, so 4 IPs on the NIC. Over this year I plan to cut it back to 2 or possibly only one subnet, but I need to implement a new firewall first.

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so you have… 3 connections with different subnets… on the same network card?
I got to 1 connection with multiple addresses but in the same subnet… That was my “top complication”.

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