Using a USB to Ethernet adapter for Proxmox management

kevindd992002

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I'll be installing proxmox in my home lab box. The box has only two ethernet adapters. 1GbE Intel and 2.5GbE Realtek. I plan on doing pci passthrough'ing these two ethernet adapters, the 1GbE one to an opnsense VM and the 2.5GbE to an debian VM (which will be my NAS and docker host). That leaves no ethernet adapater for management. Will using a USB C to 2.5GbE ethernet adapter suffice for managing proxmox? I know they can be flaky as the are all Realteks but it will only be for management anyway, so not that big of a deal, I think.

Thoughts?
 

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