Network lost on Host when bridging physical interface

vito974

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Jan 31, 2026
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Hello everyone,

I'm struggling with a networking issue on a Proxmox VE 8 host hosted at Hetzner.

The problem: Everything works fine when the physical interface is configured directly, but as soon as I move the IP to a Linux Bridge (vmbr0), I lose all external connectivity (Host is unreachable and cannot ping 8.8.8.8).

My Setup:

  • Hardware: Dedicated server at Hetzner.
  • Interface: enp0s4
  • Main IP: 95.217.144.57/26 (Gateway: 95.217.144.1)
What I've verified:

  1. MAC Address: I have forced the bridge vmbr0 to use the same hardware MAC as enp0s4 using the hwaddress parameter.
  2. ARP: Running tcpdump -i enp0s4 shows that ARP requests/replies are working. I see the gateway responding . I also see incoming traffic on port 8006, but the host doesn't seem to send anything back.
  3. Routing: ip route shows the correct default gateway via vmbr0.
  4. IP Forwarding: net.ipv4.ip_forward is set to 1.
My current /etc/network/interfaces:

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Thanks for your help!