Help with network settings needed

[southy]

Hi there,

I am a complete newbie to proxmox but I'd like very much to try it.
I have installed it and all looks nice and shiny in the web frontend, however I don't seem to get the network config of the host right.

My /etc/network/interfaces is as follows (to allow for checking stuff like masks, I have masked not the last but the first digits):

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
 
# device: eth0
auto  eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address   X.Y.90.19
#  broadcast X.Y.90.31
  netmask   255.255.255.224
  pointopoint X.Y.90.1
  gateway   X.Y.90.1

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
  adress   X.Y.90.19
  netmask 255.255.255.192
  gateway X.Y.90.1
  bridge_ports none
  bridge_stp off
  bridge_fd 0
  up route add -host X.Y.103.114/32 dev vmbr0
  up route add -host X.Y.103.115/32 dev vmbr0
  up route add -host X.Y.103.115/32 dev vmbr0

Obviously the .19 ist the host's Ip whereas the .114 and following should be for the guests.

However whatever I do I end up with:

/etc/init.d/networking restart
Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces ... (warning).
Reconfiguring network interfaces...Don't seem to have all the variables for vmbr0/inet.
Failed to bring up vmbr0.
done.

I also tried to create the bridge manually with brctl and ended up to be able to ping the additional IPs, but when I tried to SSH I ended up on the Host again, not on the guests :-(
This might be an easy one for you but I can't seem to get my head around it.

Also I am wondering what to do in the guests then: Do I only need to add a veth or also a venet?

Please help. Thanks!
southy

 

[coffe]

Hello.
What kind of networks are you going for ?
i am not sure a bridge would work without a any ports.

 

[coffe]

second part i see . is that you should not give eth0 any ip, just the wmbr0 and set its port to eth0.

 

[cmassoglia]

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
Your config must be like this

# device: eth0
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual


auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
adress X.Y.90.19
netmask 255.255.255.192
gateway X.Y.90.1
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0
up route add -host X.Y.103.114/32 dev vmbr0
up route add -host X.Y.103.115/32 dev vmbr0
up route add -host X.Y.103.115/32 dev vmbr0

Your error was you set an IP for eth0 and did not set the bridge_ports to vmbr0

 

[mrodrigues]

/etc/init.d/networking restart
Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not enable again some interfaces ... (warning).
Reconfiguring network interfaces...Don't seem to have all the variables for vmbr0/inet.
Failed to bring up vmbr0.
done.

Try:

/etc/init.d/networking stop
/etc/init.d/networking start

 

[southy]

Dear all,

thanks for all your help.
Indeed I had a couple of mistakes there.
The first was: "adress" instead of "address".

The second was to assign the same IP to eth0 as well as to vmbr0.
I have corrected the config as cmassoglie suggested.

All works fine now.

Thanks very much for your help, very much appreciated!

southy.