Hyper-V Host > Proxmox Guest > LXC Container - cannot access network interface in container

RandomPMUser

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If I do a vanilla Proxmox install on bare metal, create an LXC container (using the Debian-10.0 standard template), I am able to set up eth0 as either static or DHCP within the container, and it bridges to my network without issue (I am able to ping it, ssh, etc.).

If I do a vanilla Proxmox install as a Hyper-V Guest, create the same container, exact same config, I cannot access it by its network interface on the Proxmox guest or on my network, whether staticed or DHCP (DHCP fails).

The Proxmox guest is connected to a Hyper-V virtual switch that is connecting to my network properly, as I can access the web interface and ssh, so I'm guessing either Proxmox configured itself differently based on being a VM, Hyper-V is limiting the network interface somehow, or there is some kind of extra bridging step involved in bridging a 2nd layer guest through a 1st layer guest to the host.

Has anyone been able to set up a Proxmox guest on a Hyper-V host and get an LXC container set up with a network interface that will pass through to their network?
 
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there is probably some 'promiscuous' toggle to enable other macs to send/receive traffic on the nic in hyper-v? (if i remember correctly vmware does this, so it may be the same on hyper-v)
 
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there is probably some 'promiscuous' toggle to enable other macs to send/receive traffic on the nic in hyper-v? (if i remember correctly vmware does this, so it may be the same on hyper-v)

Exactly, I just had to configure Hyper-v to allow MAC address spoofing on the vNIC attached to my Proxmox VM, and the networking is working properly now. I can't believe I glossed over this option initially, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
 

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