Proxmox Without Ethernet

[aarushh]

Hi, I'm a newcomer to Proxmox. I have 1 Proxmox machine set up taking up my only ethernet port but I would like to make a cluster! I have a MAC Mini, and an old dell PC which I might be able to sacrifice my ethernet for as the wifi driver is broken. I'm hoping anyone could guilde me through setting up a ProxCluster without ethernet?


Thanks,
Aarush

 

[louie1961]

I wouldn't bother with wifi. Instead I would invest in a managed switch, set up VLANs and use the one physical NIC to create multiple virtual NICs. using virtual NICs, you could set up as many interfaces as you need with one ethernet port.

 

[UdoB]

WLAN does not work with a full feature set. You can not bridge it. And applying NAT/Masquerading is really a pita! The documentation is here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/WLAN

Go for USB-to-Ethernet adapters instead. That's also not recommended but it is definitely way better than wireless!

I am with @louie1961 - a managed switch to utilize VLANs is the minimum requirement. Segregating wan/dmz/iot/guest/wlan/media/adm/xyz is really a good idea - from my point of view.

 

[leesteken]

I'm sure there are (much) better managed switches out there, but TL-SG105E is a really cheap 1Gb managed (via it's own HTTP interface) switch that works well for me.