access proxmox from behind pfsense vm

[Goddard]

I know this has probably been asked, but a search on multiple search engines and this forum didn't give me a good answer.

I am running proxmox with pfsense virtualized. I have non-virtualized systems that access the LAN and WAN through pfsense. Without giving proxmox a separate dedicated NIC card how can I give my LAN access?

Thanks

 

[Alwin]

If you have one physical network port on your PVE server, you can separate your networks by using VLANs and let pfsense route the traffic between those.

 

[Goddard]

I currently have 6 network ports. Two WAN ports and four LAN ports. I have all the NICs setup in bridged mode using virtio. All the LAN ports have IP addresses like 192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.4.

I gave proxmox the IP 192.168.1.100 and set it up on the 3rd virtual bride device. I still can't access proxmox web gui. I changed the /etc/network/interfaces file and /etc/hosts file.

Can I just give proxmox a static IP and it will be accessible from a LAN virtual bridge?

 

[Goddard]

I got it working! Although with one small annoyance.. I can't use one of my LAN ports... which is basically what I didn't want.

 

[chandrabhan maktal]

A lot of missing info here, but a dedicated NIC is not required. You can do this using a virtual switch and VLANs.

Can you describe your current environment a little more? I assume you have a host with one NIC? Two? Then a virtual switch on the host and a physical switch connecting to the rest of your physical environment?

 

[Goddard]

I have 2 WAN and 4 LAN ports all being used by Pfsense. Currently I set a static IP on one of the LAN ports and I am able to access Proxmox from that it appears to be working well with this configuration now. Any reason why this wouldn't be a good solution?