Change Console Interface and IP to Internal Port

norsemangrey

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Feb 8, 2021
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Sorry if my terminology is off. Hopefully you will get my meaning.

My Proxmox host has 5 NICs. My router is a virtual pfSense running on Proxmox providing two subnets (SEC / IOT) connected to separate physical switches from the Proxmox NICs.

The console interface to Proxmox is now on a physical NIC enp2s0f1, with an IP as shown below, connected to the same physical switch as the SEC interface coming from pfSense. So I guess it is kind of a loopback.

My question is: can I also create an "internal" connection to the Proxmox console so I do not have to rely on the physical interface being connected?

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You can always add IP addresses to the other network interfaces. The Proxmox web interface listens on port 8006 regardlzof IP address.

Changing IP addresses in an existing cluster is a different topic though.

Thanks. That worked just fine. Learned something new today :)
Now to something more tricky perhaps. The bottom interface is a (vmbr4) is a trunked interface / VLAN aware (I have just started configuring VLANs on pfSense). Should I be able to do the same thing there? I guess, perhaps not, because I tried to give it an address on one of the VLAN ranges and I could not reach the web console on that address.