New to VB - Help with Bridged Adapter setup

[Cybergoon]

I have a PC running Linux Mint Cinnamon along with VB 5.1.26.

I've created a VM for PFSense and it works fine using NAT for my outside adapter. From what I've read, I really need to be using a Bridged adapter for my outward facing NIC. I don't want this machine to be visible to the outside world.
When I set the outside NIC to Bridged, then go into the VM, it will not pull an IP address, which is understandable, as my ISP only allows one IP. I found somewhere saying to disable the NIC in the Host, then it will work. I did that and the guest doesn't see the NIC at all. I know many have done this in the past without issues, but I'm not having any luck.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

-Goon

[Perryg]

From what I've read, I really need to be using a Bridged adapter for my outward facing NIC. I don't want this machine to be visible to the outside world.

Details are necessary here. What machine can not be seen? Host, guest, pfsense? Can we assume you do not have a router and that is what pfsense is to be used for?

[Cybergoon]

From what I've read, I really need to be using a Bridged adapter for my outward facing NIC. I don't want this machine to be visible to the outside world.

Details are necessary here. What machine can not be seen? Host, guest, pfsense? Can we assume you do not have a router and that is what pfsense is to be used for?

Everything works fine with WAN set to NAT, but I don't want the Host to have the outward facing public IP (for security purposes). I want the VM running PFSense to have the IP address. I've tried editing the IPv4 settings for the adapter in Network Connections, but as soon as I reboot my cable modem, it creates a new adapter without the changes I made.

I just tried this on my laptop at work and it seems to have worked, so I think I'm going to wipe and re-install tonight.