SPAN Inter-VM Commuication to another devices..

Mlaeeq

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Hello everyone, I am new to proxmox and for my lab, i have installed a few VMs. The proxmox server has two interfaces.
Vmbr0 is connected to internet using eno1, and used as a proxmox management interface.
The VMs having 192.168.30.x IPs are assigned vmbr1 (bridged from eno2) that is basically connected to trunk port in my physical switch.
Now on the same switch i have configured SPAN port and attached another laptop ( IP: 192.168.30.100 ) that is basically meant to capture all the inter-VM traffic that’s exchanged among VMs.
Each VM can ping the laptop and vise versa. I am using Wireshark as well as other packet capturing tools for this. When a VM is communicating to another device outside the proxmox, that traffic is captured in wireshark, But the problem is i cannot capture the traffic, two or more vms are communicating to eachother.
What should i to be able to intercept all the Inter-VM traffic, on the Laptop.

Any help will be much appreciated.
Below is the configuration of my interfaces..

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eno1 inet manual

auto enxc84d4420cfc0
iface enxc84d4420cfc0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address 192.168.1.58/24
gateway 192.168.1.1
bridge-ports eno1
bridge-stp off
bridge-fd 0

iface wlp3s0 inet manual

auto vmbr1
iface vmbr1 inet manual
bridge-ports eno2
bridge-stp off
bridge-fd 0
bridge-vlan-aware yes
bridge-vids 2-4094
mtu 1500
 
Thankyou gurubert, but for simplicity I mentioned wireshark. While in actual scenario, I want all of the VMs traffic to be monitored by "Defender for IoT" that is residing outside of the proxmox...
Basically i want to see what's going around in my proxmox VMs, are they violating some policies etc..
These VMs will be monitored live and without any break. Is there any way to accomplish this?
This has been done in VMware ESXI
 

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