Hi! Thank for replying!

I certainly won’t disagree about misunderstanding, and thank you for explaining. I noticed you saying that for VPS I would certainly want to be using NAT, would that also apply for dedicated server? As that’s what I’m using and thought there was a difference. (Sorry if I come across as dense, it’s because I am dense haha.)

I would quite happily still use NAT if there was a way that I could open a range of ports for one of the VM’s. As I do want to expose that VM to the internet as it’ll be used for deploying several steam game servers.

Which is why I thought that my option would be to purchase a secondary IP, create a virtual nic using the details of that secondary ip, and create a pfsense vm and have that acting as a dhcp for the vm that I want to expose with a range of open ports.

I then thought that instead of purchasing a secondary ip, maybe I could still achieve this if I changed my host(currently windows) to proxmox or exsi to achieve what I’m hoping to try and do. But the more that I’m reading, the more I’m thinking I might just need that second ip.

Hey! Thanks for your reply!

Yeah, they are. I do use Nginx Proxy Manager to access some websites that way. I don’t see how I can do that with a range of ports with NPM without adding them one by one. Maybe that’s a NPM limitation? Or I’m not quite sure how.

I was kind of hoping that for example on the VM opens ports 8000-9000. And all I needed to do was on my Windows Server (Hosts the VM) allow ports 8000-9000 and it would all just work haha

But because it’s on NAT I have to use the Virtual Network Editor and add ports one by one.