Hi

I am currently using a Fritzbox and my ISP is Internode.  I connect using PPPoE, but I am changing to a different router because I can't seem to do what I need to do with the Fritzbox.  I have NBN, but it uses a phone line.  I am planning on buying the TP-Link VR2100V and that will be the modem.  My main router is a pfSense box.  If plug the phone line into the pfSense to try and connect using PPPoE nothing happens.  The lights on the router don't even flash so I seem to need a modem.

What I am trying to do is run multiple Flux nodes on an Oracle VM.  Each Flux node gets an internal/private IP address from my pfSense router.  The pfSense router gets an IP from the ISP router/TP-Link.

I need to give each node a public static IP address (I have six /29 currently).  I am able to set up pfSense so that when a node goes online it is seen as having the public static IP address.

This is how it will work

The node connects to the internet and it is seen as having a public static IP address of, for example, 66.10.1.1 and another node also connects at the same time and it is seen as 66.10.1.2.  That is fine.  I run a script on the node to check it's online IP address

But when someone from the internet tries to connect to 66.10.1.1 then that is where I get stuck.  I tested this with web pages that check for open ports.

Will it be good enough to just put pfSense in the TP-Link DMZ?  Do I need to do some kind of ipv4 route from the TP-Link to the pfSense?