Make Two different Proxmox Lan's VMs to communicate with each other.

eveliou

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I currently have two proxmox Metals in Scaleway Cloud. Yesterday I bought my second one but with the first one I didn't have any issue. So my setup in the first one is a pfsense firewall with a WAN and a LAN in 192.168.1.0/24. Now I introduced the second Metal and created another pfsense (I know it was not necessary but I did) and again WAN and LAN 192.168.2.0/24. I also have a feature called VPC where you connect the two metals in the same private network. I assign the metals to a private network and get both a Vlan id for both metals. Also I managed to connect the two metals by giving them IP addresses 10.10.10.2/24 and 10.10.10.3/24. Both metals can ping each other. My issue is that I cannot make the two LAN VMs ping each other. I know I can connect the two pfsense using VPN in their WAN but I don't want this in case that I can make it work directly internally. So what should I do, to make for example 192.168.1.5 VM in Metal 1 communicate with 192.168.2.2 VM in metal 2?
 
Ok I believe is this what you mean? I created the Vlan and then created a bridge on both metal for that Vlan. vmbr2. Is that ok?


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I believe this vNICs should be created in each of my VMs right? I use only ubuntu 22. can you please give an example knowing my setup?
 
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Add a new virtual network interface to each of your VMs that use vmbr2 as bridge device. Inside the VM you will then see a new network interface (probably ens19) that you can configure as you like (e.g. with IPs out of 10.10.10.0/24).
 
Add a new virtual network interface to each of your VMs that use vmbr2 as bridge device. Inside the VM you will then see a new network interface (probably ens19) that you can configure as you like (e.g. with IPs out of 10.10.10.0/24)
I believe that in the screenshot is what you mean, and also the netplan configuration in ubuntu. While attaching the new bridge, do i also have to add a vlan tag? Metal 1 VMs get the metal 1 vlan tag..metal 2 etc?
 

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Just a dumb question. The VMs now will be able to ping each other only with the IPs assigned to them from the new vmbr2. Is there any possibility i could configure these VMs to ping each other from the LAN IPs? 192.168.2.0/24 192.168.1.0/24 from vmbr0?
 

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