[SOLVED] Proxmox container no internet

popallo

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Jul 2, 2019
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Hello everyone, I have a problem that I can not solve on a SCALEWAY GP1-XS instance.

I installed debian 9 on it then proxmox 5.4. Good for this part, I can connect to the proxmox web interface without any problems.

I would like to give the opportunity to my LXC containers to access the internet without ip failover but i'm lost when i need to configure the network interfaces.

Currently i have an interface named "ens2" and I do not know what else to do.

I followed various tutorial indicating to create an interface vmbr0 then vmbr1. So I manage to make my containers ping the host via an ip type 192.168.1.x but they can not reach any website.

Here is the configuration I did (which does not work) and any help would be appreciated :)


Code:
auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

    source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*.cfg

    iface eth0 inet manual

    iface eth1 inet manual

    auto vmbr0
    iface vmbr0 inet static
        address  10.x.x.x #Scaleway private ip
        netmask  255.255.255.254
        gateway  10.x.x.y
        bridge-ports eth0
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

    auto vmbr1
    iface vmbr1 inet static
        address 192.168.1.254
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        bridge_ports none
        bridge_stp off
        bridge_fd 0
        post-up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
        post-up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s '192.168.1.0/24' -o vmbr0 -j MASQUERADE
        post-down iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -s '192.168.1.0/24' -o vmbr0 -j MASQUERADE

The content of interfaces.d/

Code:
auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

    auto ens2
    iface ens2 inet dhcp


Same file for my first container

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Code:
auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.100
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.1.254

traceroute 1.1.1.1 give me this

Code:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         gateway         0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ens2
10.x.x.198   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.254 U     0      0        0 ens2
I think that I made several errors, in particular I see under the interface of proxmox that the interface eth0 is not active and I have a doubt on the use of the private ip on vmbr0.

Thank you in advance !
 
Last edited:
Hello everyone, so I found after fifty unsuccessful attempts. This is my last attempt and it works:

Code:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface ens2 inet manual

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*.cfg

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.254
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    broadcast 192.168.1.255
    bridge_ports none
    bridge_stp off
    bridge_fd 0
    post-up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
    post-up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ens2 -j MASQUERADE
    post-down iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ens2 -j MASQUERADE

And for my first container (lxc):
Code:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.100
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.1.254

Hope that this can help others!
 
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