Assigning VMs to a dedicated subnet

[Scepter]

Hi,

I'm quite here, so I hope my question is not too stupid.

I'm operating in a fairly typical home environment, i.e. with a single public IP and a DHCP server assigning the IPs from the subnet 192.168.0.0/24 to my local clients. For Proxmox, I would like to create a dedicated subnet (192.168.77.0/24) for its VMs and containers, so that they're separated from my physical network devices.

So here's what I already did:

1. Registered a static IP (192.168.0.50) for the Proxmox host on my router
2. Registered a static route 192.168.77.0/24 -> 192.168.0.50 on my router
3. Used this config to set up both the static IP and the route on my Proxmox host

Everything looks promising so far, but when booting up a container, no IP gets assigned. Sounds logical so far, as my routers DHCP is no longer responsible for assigning addresses within the static route. So ideally, I would like to just set a static IP from the subnet for each container (e.g. 192.168.77.55), but I didn't find any option to do so. I know that I can set a static IP on the guest OS, but from my understanding, Proxmox must be aware of the IP assignments as well to be able to forward requests.

Does my plan sound reasonable so far and if, does anybody know of a way to set up static IPs for VMs?

 

[mira]

PVE doesn't offer either DHCP nor assigning from a list of IPs. You'll have to configure your own DHCP provider or assign static IPs yourself.
And take a look into the next chapter of the docs as well: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/ch..._nat_with_span_class_monospaced_iptables_span

This will probably be the better choice for your setup instead of the routed one.

 

[Scepter]

Thanks, I've managed to solve it! Turns out I just had a typo inside my config.