Comments on: How to Assign a Second IP Address to Proxmox VE Hosts https://www.servethehome.com/how-to-assign-a-second-ip-address-to-proxmox-ve-hosts/ Server and Workstation Reviews Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Freddy Zapata https://www.servethehome.com/how-to-assign-a-second-ip-address-to-proxmox-ve-hosts/#comment-529974 Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:55:04 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=76568#comment-529974 Good article, thank you for posting. I had this same problem in the past and I was able to resolve it by changing the “host” file. Here is an example of the host file which accomplished the same thing.

“127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
99.23.149.237 freddy.attlocal.net freddy
192.168.1.250 freddy.attlocal.net freddy

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts”

]]> By: Zamadatix https://www.servethehome.com/how-to-assign-a-second-ip-address-to-proxmox-ve-hosts/#comment-529855 Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:25:34 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=76568#comment-529855 2nd clarification: don’t rely on spanning tree (even when it does work it’ll be subpar) and make sure you select an appropriate bond type for how you are going to configure your switches.

]]> By: zamadatix https://www.servethehome.com/how-to-assign-a-second-ip-address-to-proxmox-ve-hosts/#comment-529853 Mon, 11 Mar 2024 03:22:21 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=76568#comment-529853 Important clarification on Art C’s comment: you put the interfaces into a bond and then put the bond into a bridge. If you just put the interfaces into a bridge and start plugging them into switches you’ve at best just merged a bunch of subnets into a single L2 and at worse just took down your network with a multipoint loop.

]]> By: Art C. https://www.servethehome.com/how-to-assign-a-second-ip-address-to-proxmox-ve-hosts/#comment-529774 Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:36:50 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=76568#comment-529774 Normally it is considered the correct “data center” practice to put all interfaces into a bridge, assign one IP address to the bridge for host access, and then attach the interfaces to separate switches if possible. Virtual machines and containers, either on the native network or with VLAN tags, can then be assigned IP addresses attached to the bridge.

Creating affinity between hosting elements and physical interfaces is generally considered bad practice unless you are attempting to “steer” traffic towards a particular interface … that might be the case if you have A/B networks for storage.

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