Simple networking query - can host listen on vlan?

yatesco

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Sep 25, 2009
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Hi,

I have a number of nodes which run VMs which can communicate on a various VLANs. These VLANs are configured via the hosts web gui - all great.

However, the hosts themselves cannot communicate with machines on the VLANs, and this makes sense - the hosts don't have an IP on the VLAN. My question is how can I create a dummy NIC that is served by the DHCP server on the VLAN?

For example, I have a VLAN which is mapped to eth0.16 on the host, and the VMs that are bridged to that work fine. How can I get the host to also talk on that VLAN?

I am sure it is simple, so feel free to call me a n00b - I will consider that a landmark to be honest :) Also, this isn't strictly Proxmox related so ....

Thanks all,

Col
 

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