My only issue with proxmox is ......

[wilsonjc]

Vlans.

This appears to be the only limitation of this excellent product.

I need to add vlans, a very simple task, its added to our cisco core fine, but they I come to proxmox,

I need to reboot my server to add the vlans on to it.

is there anyway round this? My proxmox cluster runs my core network as well as customer facing servers,

It is very difficult to organise a shutdown of the server when we want to add something that seems so trivial?

If anyone can suggest a way round this I'll be eternally grateful.


Regards

John

 

[udo]

Vlans.

This appears to be the only limitation of this excellent product.

I need to add vlans, a very simple task, its added to our cisco core fine, but they I come to proxmox,

I need to reboot my server to add the vlans on to it.

is there anyway round this? My proxmox cluster runs my core network as well as customer facing servers,

It is very difficult to organise a shutdown of the server when we want to add something that seems so trivial?

If anyone can suggest a way round this I'll be eternally grateful.


Regards

John

Hi,
you can do all things also on the linux directly. With normal linux commands - but if you configure all by hand and do an mistake in /etc/network/interfaces you will perhaps have an problem if you reboot your server month later and don't remember what you have all changed...

Udo

 

[wilsonjc]

Hi Udo.

If that works and I don't need to reboot my server, I'll owe you a bx of biscuits

Thanks I'm off to try that.

Regards

John

 

[udo]

Hi Udo.

If that works and I don't need to reboot my server, I'll owe you a bx of biscuits

Thanks I'm off to try that.

Regards

John

Nice...

but remember - don't mix tagged and untagged vlans on one NIC (some people reported trouble with this).
An working part of interfaces looks like this:

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
        address  0.0.0.0
        netmask  0.0.0.0

auto eth1.10
iface eth1.10 inet static
        address  0.0.0.0
        netmask  0.0.0.0

auto eth1.20
iface eth1.20 inet static
        address  0.0.0.0
        netmask  0.0.0.0

auto eth1.30
iface eth0.30 inet static
        address  0.0.0.0
        netmask  0.0.0.0

auto vmbr10
iface vmbr10 inet manual
        bridge_ports eth1.10
        bridge_stp off
        bridge_fd 0

auto vmbr20
iface vmbr20 inet manual
        bridge_ports eth1.20
        bridge_stp off
        bridge_fd 0

auto vmbr30
iface vmbr30 inet manual
        bridge_ports eth1.30
        bridge_stp off
        bridge_fd 0

Udo