If you are sending things via email 99% of it is going to hit the spam folder. If I register a domain name I get no less than 6 emails selling my web site designs, logos, seo, hosting and other stuff I neither want nor need. Figure out of the rest you will get less than 10 percent interaction.

Build a website, create 20 mock logos, write some articles, then head to local businesses to give them a chance to take a look. When you get a few locals that you can get on board and have some links on your site that show you have real customers with real locations.

Use your SEO skills and people will make it to your site and inquire about your services.

Without all of that if I received an email randomly in my spam I wouldn’t even look. Some rando sending me an email for a service is no different than the ShinyHunters hacking group junk I get saying I’ve been hacked and send them 2000 in crypto, the German guy sending me a notice that I have money they are holding for me, or the junk saying thank you for your Microsoft 365 purchase that I didn’t make.

I know it sounds harsh but pulling punches isn’t going to help you here. Also randomly starting something then quitting because you are not successful then doing it again on something else and wondering what the problem is… well they say the perfect definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. It sounds like you are changing the wrong variables. If you really want this to work you need to put in more effort than watching a few videos, making minimal effort, sending random emails, then moving on when it didn’t work. When you can walk in to an established business in your preferred field and get a job doing what you are trying to randomly sell then you can start a real business and be successful.

It’s not just about the advanced functions. Many of the older more basic tools are single threaded which will potentially limit the performance. As you figure things out you will want to do more and you may find the current tools more of a limiting factor. But the choice is yours, I have 2 48port gigabit switches and WiFi SSID’s that connect to specific vLAN’s through tagging. I started with some dumb switches and added my 10Gbps backbone switch which I used as a dumb switch for years so I could connect my desktop and server over a faster connection.

In my equipment an untagged port is what a port is where the vLAN is stripped away. A tagged port has the vLAN tag passed to the device. If you can set multiple vlan tags on the same port that port becomes a trunked port. You may also be able to set a vlan as untagged on that port, if a device is plugged into that port it will by default be on the untagged vLAN. If the device is able to handle vLAN tagging it can live on the vLAN’s you set up as well.

It took me a bit to figure it all out and get it working. I spent about 20 hours configuring things before I started making the switch from a single net to multiple vLAN’s. I spent another 8 hours making the change and 5 or 6 more tweaking things.

I wanted lasik done but was told my vision was too good at that point.

Right now I have too much other stuff happening.

Yeah I was considering monovision for contacts actually. My late wife did that and she was happy with it. I don’t really have a dominant eye so it should allow me to see ok close and far without bifocal lenses.

No. I didn’t use any video’s to set mine up and wouldn’t even know where to find one that is up to date.

Dnsmasq isn’t being deprecated that I know of but when you begin doing more advanced functions some tools work better than others. The “New” rules are fully functional and I suspect the old ones will slowly be removed in later releases. They are revamping some stuff, ISC DHCP used to be the go to but that is being passed out by the creators. https://www.isc.org/kea/ and OPNsense is cleaning up things so it all works with the rest api and is higher performance.

Trunking is when a port can deal with all setup vLAN’s not sure about your switches as they are pretty basic looking. I’m using a pair of Dell PowerConnect 5548’s and a Quanta LB6M which are much more complex. But basically think of a vLAN as a branch of a tree and the Trunk is the base that connects to everything.

Ok, so first of all a TON of things have changed in OPNsense in the last couple updates so you may just want to pull everything you did. It looks like you are using the old firewall rules which while they are going to stick around they are trying to migrate people away from them.

You should be using KEA DHCP as that is the modern and latest and greatest DHCP server that is vLAN aware. Also UnboundDNS is a recursive DNS server and designed for modern networks, with the advantage of being able to use DNS Blocklists to block ads and other “junk.” Just remember that the blocklists live in RAM so if you don’t have much RAM available I wouldn’t recommend using them.

NOTE: If you are using Dnsmasq DNS&DHCP you will have to turn it off before you can enable KEA DHCP and UnboundDNS as it will tie up the ports needed and they will fail to start. You can copy everything over before making the change and if there is an issue you can switch back just by stopping the new ones and enabling the old one.

With that said one of the biggest things is that with a managed switch you will need to trunk the port that OPNsense is plugged in to for the LAN unless you are using multiple ports on your OpnSense install and then those ports will need to be properly tagged and you will need to trunk any ports that are linking switches together you will have to figure that out on your own but I suggest grabbing a copy of your switch’s manual (and if you use a chatbot upload that file to it for help.) Then you can use vLAN tagging for each port that you want to receive an IP address from a particular pool automatically. You can also trunk ports that you want to use for management but set the default the port will use for access so the device can get an ip via DHCP, this really only works well with Linux. If you are using windows you will need to just create firewall rules that allow your device to talk to the other vLAN’s instead.

When you create your firewall rules you have to understand that you can only preform one action per rule. If you want to allow your vLAN 1 network to talk to vLAN 10 that is one rule. To allow vLAN 10 to talk to the internet that is another rule. You can use floating rules to do the work on multiple vLAN’s but that should be limited. If you select more than one network interface a rule will becoming a floating rule and will process before other rules so if you create a rule to block something later on but have the same interface set on a floating rule the block will not work, it’s better to enable piece by piece than to blanket enable and then try to block. With 5 vLAN’s I have 5 floating rules and 34 regular rules plus 40 automatically generated rules (which handle things like allowing DHCP access and basic protections.)

Here is a firewall rule that allows my “Trusted” vLAN to access my “Camera” vLAN as an example. The Categories are not important but make finding what a rule deals with later on a lot easier, they are set under the firewalls - categories. You should also use good descriptions for this reason.

You will also have to explicitly allow access to services like DNS. This is how I am allowing my “Trusted” vLAN to access DNS services on my OPNsense.

This is how I allow my trusted network to access the internet. If you have multiple WAN’s you can choose a specific one or if you have failover configured you would likely select the “group” you created when you setup the failover.

If you need more help let me know. If you have been tinkering with a bunch of stuff you may want to start over, just backup your current configuration and reset everything to defaults. If you can’t figure it out you can reset to defaults and restore your configuration.

Give me a bit and I will be able to help you. I have a multi vlan setup with vLAN tagged switches and wifi ap’s.

I can’t help myself…

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Never heard the arguments you are referencing but most of the slaves from Africa were captured and sold into slavery by the African tribes. Slavery was in existence even before Europeans visited Africa.

Slavery still exists in Africa today even though it’s technically illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa

Yes, many tribes did. In Oklahoma the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole, historically practiced slavery, and their descendants, known as Freedmen, are still fighting for recognition and citizenship within these tribes today.

Firearms in general.

Supressors as well. If two guys were walking through an airport shooting at each other everyone would still know it. Also a suppressor has a pop on the first shot.

If you have your firearm knowledge from movies and TV you don’t know anything except what Hollywood wants you to think.

Vision changes. Can’t read my tablet with my glasses on. Can’t read the TV with them off.

Becoming a widower really really sucks.

The aches and pains are rough some times. The stupid crap you did that was fun as a kid will find you eventually.

Starting to lose the strength I always had. Used to be able to lift nearly anything i could put my arms around. Carrying a clothes dryer up a set of stairs by myself wasn’t bad. Still strong but not like I was.