Networking is not my strong suit, so I thought I would toss my question to those with much more experience. I use VE mainly for testing purposes for an ASP.NET application that we have developed. Currently, it is a Windows only Web application. Most of our clients are government agencies that have their web application servers and database servers behind a domain controller, most often, Active Directory.
Warning: I am coming from a VMWare Server 2.0 background...
Currently, VE 2.0 is installed on a mid-tower server with 2 network interface cards, one of which, eth0, is connected to our internal LAN (192.168.1.x) with a static IP of 192.168.1.100 and eth1 is not used at all and is turned off. When I set up my virtual machines, I normally configure each one with 2 NICs, one bridged and the other one NAT. The bridged card is assigned a static IP (192.168.1.100+<vmid>), the other is assigned an IP through DHCP and is usually in the class A range. I am using a vanilla install of VE.
My questions are: 1) Do I need to bridge or bond eth0 to create the VE bridge for Internet access, 2.) Should I set up a new bridge for strictly internal, Internet-less, communications, and 3) What does my /etc/network/interfaces config need to look like as well as my Proxmox Networking settings in the Web management console?
Thank you in advance...
Warning: I am coming from a VMWare Server 2.0 background...
Currently, VE 2.0 is installed on a mid-tower server with 2 network interface cards, one of which, eth0, is connected to our internal LAN (192.168.1.x) with a static IP of 192.168.1.100 and eth1 is not used at all and is turned off. When I set up my virtual machines, I normally configure each one with 2 NICs, one bridged and the other one NAT. The bridged card is assigned a static IP (192.168.1.100+<vmid>), the other is assigned an IP through DHCP and is usually in the class A range. I am using a vanilla install of VE.
My questions are: 1) Do I need to bridge or bond eth0 to create the VE bridge for Internet access, 2.) Should I set up a new bridge for strictly internal, Internet-less, communications, and 3) What does my /etc/network/interfaces config need to look like as well as my Proxmox Networking settings in the Web management console?
Thank you in advance...