[SOLVED] No Proxmox internet connection through onboard ethernet

[ld5150]

I have been trying to set up proxmox for the first time today and the whole installation goes well except for one thing. I can't log in through the GUI (cannot connect from desktop to proxmox) to start setting up VMs and configure the machine. Proxmox itself doesn't seem to be able to access the internet. I have been doing lots of reading trying to trouble shoot this, and I think I have an idea what the problem is. I was just wondering if someone could confirm this or not.

The motherboard that proxmox is going through is a Asrock H77 Pro-m. The LAN chipset is a Realtek 8111E. Will proxmox work with that chipset? I have been doing some reading and it seems like in order to get proxmox to have an internet connection the chipset needs to be intel based, or I need to get an Intel PCI-e NIC. Is that true?

When setting up proxmox I put in the following info:

Hostname (fqdn): proxmox.local
ip address: 192.168.1.250
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS Server: 192.168.1.1

My desktop that I try to connect to it with is as follows:
ip address: 192.168.1.100
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS Server: 192.168.1.1

I have tried pinging proxmox with my desktop (192.168.1.100 > 192.168.1.250) and all the returns is Host Unreachable (this is done through Linux mints terminal).

I have tried to ping google.com through proxmox itself and it returns the same thing (Host Unreachable).

I am sort of lost and really frusterated at this point, so if it turns out I am going to have to get a PCI intel NIC to get proxmox to work so be it I guess. It would just be nice to know what is going wrong since I feel I have done everything right up to this point.

 

[FrankB]

Could you post the URL you are trying to use to connect?

 

[ld5150]

I solved the problem. It was my fault. I was lazy and didn't want to dig through my closet to pull out my spare mouse and keyboard to install proxmox on my server itself, so I just took the SSD I was going to use and put it into my desktop, did the install and moved it over to the server when it was done. During the install it associated the MAC address for eth0, and then when I moved it over to my server it saw that there was a different MAC address so it created eth1. In my interfaces file though it was telling proxmox to go through eth0, which was being ignored by my router because the IP address was wrong.

Solution: Don't be lazy and just install proxmox on the machine you are planning to use it on.