My Network Basics I have Comcast Xfinity Internet which comes into my house via coaxial cable. That goes into my Zoom modem (Model 5341J). The Ethernet connection coming out of my modem is my WAN (Wide Area Network) connection. That goes into my Asus RT-AC87R wireless router. The router provides an Ethernet connection to two desktops and Wifi for various laptops, phones, and an Xbox. My Hyper-V Setup I have a basic desktop PC running Windows 10 Pro with Hyper-V enabled. The motherboard has one Ethernet port and I've added two more Ethernet ports with PCIe add-in cards. Run pfSense in Hyper-V I use all 3 network cards (NIC) in my PC to make this work. I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but this is how it makes sense to me. The Ethernet port on my motherboard I consider my management port and I don't make any changes to it or assign it to Hyper-V. It picks up a DHCP address from whatever it's plugged into and provides network connectivity just like any other Window...
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