So what do you think might be the problem with it that I might check? As far as I know, if I’ve been assigned an IP address, DHCP is working.

I won’t be able to try this until at least tomorrow after work, more than 24 hours from now, but yes, this was what was in my tutorials as standard. But also agreed in those tutorials was that what I tried doing was even more permissive and ought to “just work”, at the risk of security and with no separation; I always try to do “Hello World” before I try to implement anything of value, and right now I’m barely seeing “Hello”.

They’re on different subnets, so I figured. I believe DHCP is set up properly, because it assigned an IP to that mini PC in my specified range.

Thanks, I’m going to have to go through this with a fine-toothed comb to see where I went wrong. If you read my other comments and have a hunch as to the problem in the meantime, I’m all ears, lol.

Starfield almost certainly made a boatload of money.

Warhorse is working on a Lord of the Rings game. That’s probably more of what we want out of a new Elder Scrolls than the actual next Elder Scrolls.

What rug pull? You pay a subscription and know exactly when they’re going to revoke your licenses.

The output of that command is:

It was listening when I pinged the gateway from the mini PC.

I might not understand what you mean, but doing the best I can figure out, the output from the endpoint mini PC running ip route is:

192.168.10.0/24 dev enxc84d4422aa48 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.10.157 metric 100

From the OPNsense firewall, the trace route looks like this (I would have expected to see the switches that it hops to in between, but I don’t see them here):

I can’t find any option to print routing tables in my switches, both of them Netgear GS305E switches. I don’t see any mention of it in the manual either. I suspect that what you asked me to do was lost on me.

It’s not working as intended for people to refund a game that they enjoyed and finished, or else the refund window would have been 100 hours.

Eh, not every game needs more “content”. Clickolding and And Roger are, as I understand it, very good at what they do, but you can finish them both in an hour. It would probably be to their detriment to make them any longer.

I hate to say it, but the business model always affects the game design. The “meta” is to make a game that’s longer than 2 hours if you want to avoid this, or that the player otherwise won’t want to part with after that 2 hours is up.

Do you need to take any precautions around the file compression spider?

When time is money, optimizing for time is a worthwhile endeavor. 6+ year dev cycles aren’t something anyone wants. But realistically, large file sizes probably aren’t going away with more dev time.

It’s pretty easy to do when they don’t want to own studios that make games anymore.

I’d say this year’s best game so far, that I’ve played anyway, is only 2.13 GB; Escape from Ever After.

They optimized for things other than install size. Optimization is often choosing one thing at the expense of others.

I watched and rewatched tutorial videos, traced my cables and ports, and configured the port settings until I was able to ping the gateway on this VLAN. That’s as far as I’ve gotten. Over the course of today, since posting this thread, I’ve rechecked those settings a handful of times, and they still appear to be correct as far as I know. If I delete the extremely permissive firewall rule that I set up for the VLAN, I lose the ability to ping the gateway, which seemingly validates the rest of my setup and leads me to believe that this is a configuration issue in OPNsense rather than the configuration of my switches…but I don’t know what I don’t know, and I’m still learning this stuff.

I understand that you’re recommending what you think is best based on your experience, but as I’ve been trying to learn self hosting with a semi-simple goal in mind, the extra complexity that folks keep recommending around just about every facet, because their needs or desires are greater than mine once they’re more seasoned than me, does make it all more difficult to take in during the learning process. Maybe I’ll want to go more advanced some day, but for now, the goal is to host fewer than a dozen services off of two different devices that live under my office desk and consume under 100W between them. I want VLANs for this as a means of separation in case the security of my exposed services is compromised, but with this smoke test, I want to prove that I understand the basics of doing so, so it’s currently feeling defeating that I don’t. I don’t want to sound like I’m not appreciative of any help you can offer, but I do still believe that simpler is better for me at this point.

My firewall mini PC has four ports, but only two of them are active; LAN and WAN. I got that much working without much fuss and replaced my ISP’s provided router. There were two dumb switches between the firewall and the office, but once that was working, I replaced them with managed switches; when they’re not yet configured, they’re indistinguishable from dumb switches. I’ve been over my OPNsense configuration a dozen times in this thread by now, but let’s just say this new VLAN is set to be as permissible as I know how to make it, coming very close to my default LAN interface settings as far as rules go. They ought to be identical. The two smart switches are set up such that port 5 is “in” and 1 is “out”. Living room 5 connects to the firewall. Living room 1 connects to the office switch’s port 5. Office switch 1 connects to the end point mini PC. Living room ports 1-5 are untagged for VLAN 1; ports 1 and 5 are tagged for VLAN 10. Office ports 2-5 are untagged for VLAN 1; for VLAN 10, 1 is untagged and 5 is tagged, and port 1 has a PVID of 10.

I spelled all of that out in hopes that I did something stupid that I don’t know how to spot but maybe you do. Every device on VLAN 1 is working as it should with internet access. The one device on VLAN 10 only has access to the gateway and nothing else, despite the most permissive “allow everything” rule I could set up.

That’s what I’m saying though. I believe I tried a few configurations of both 4 and 6 now, in the time since you asked. At first it was only 4, because a tutorial said I didn’t need to bother. I added one for 6. I tried setting the source to “any” instead of just the VLAN network. I tried a handful of permutations of those things, disconnecting and reconnecting the wired connection to release/renew between each one. It doesn’t seem to have changed.

I think I’ve adjusted it to be as permissible as possible. There are some auto-generated rules that populate above it that, when expanded, look like maybe they would interfere? But I thought the manual rules should override anything in there. I can’t think of anything else.