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Just got off a call with a few of the Eshtek guys, they set me straight very quickly. Before I called them, I dove into what others here have done. Here is what fixed the router swap for me: Sign into the TrueNas Scale Web UI. Go to Network: Go to Global Config settings: Change Nameserver1 and IPv4 Default Gateway to the IP address on/of your router. My issue was that I kept changing the NAS IP address to the IP of the NAS, not the router. Essentially, I was signed into my router interface, looked up what the NAS IP address was, and kept changing the Nameserver1 and Default gateway to that IP, when I should have been setting it to the IP of the router. Once that is done, my NAS found the internet again, the HexOS deck found a server and I was set! I had to skip the initial setup in order to prevent wiping the drives, but I was saved. Thanks to Nick and Eric!

I would like to see first party support for placing any app behind some of the most popular VPNs (PIA, Nord, Express, Proton, Tailscale, etc), as well as custom VPNs (WireGuard, OpenVPN, etc). For example, you may install “The Lounge” IRC client and have all internet communication pass through a PIA VPN so that your home IP is not exposed while chatting. Traditional methods of doing this involve painful configuration of iptables or other firewall rules. I believe this is an area where HexOS could really simplify things: Install a VPN plugin, authenticate with it, and then simply assign an app to a VPN plugin via the app’s settings if desired. It would be fully accessible from the home network without going through the VPN, but all internet traffic would go through the VPN with a kill switch in case the VPN goes down. Thoughts?

I'll just answer myself. It is. I had previosly updated TrueNas to Fangtooth which is not supported and I messed up the boot pool so I wanted to reinstall but was worried about it (I was thinking on just dropping HexOS and use TrueNas directly with the latest version). I was able to reinstall everything following these steps (I had a recent copy of the truenas config): Follow steps 1 to 6 Update TrueNas from the UI to Fangtooth Reimport TrueNas config profit This was easier than I though and I didn't lose any data.