VXLAN & *sense with a cluster

[arrozmio]

Hi all,

I hope you are doing well. I’ve been researching for an answer or best practices but couldn’t really find a good solution or something straightforward. I have a 4 node cluster made up of small/tiny desktop PCs with each having a single NIC. Each PC connects directly to my home router and live on the 192.168.1.XXX network. I have them set up as a cluster. I’d like to set up an isolated network in my cluster with an IP range of 192.168.100.XXX using a Pfsense router. My home router is a basic ATT fiber router so not much in terms of IO/flexibility. I read that I can create a VXLAN network under Datacenter and add all my nodes to the peer list. I set up my zones and vnets to match and was able to successfully ping across VMs in the .100.XXX network and my .1.XXX. The issue lies in that I can’t really access the Pfsense web gui from a VM that is on a different node as the PFsense VM or reach out to the Internet. Any ideas? Or would it be best to remove the vm all together and just stick to SDN/VXLAN?

Thank you

 

[arrozmio]

Here are my configs under /etc/network/interfaces:

Node1:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eno1 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.200/24
        gateway 192.168.1.254
        bridge-ports eno1
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

iface wlp1s0 inet manual


source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

Node2:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eno2 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.201/24
        gateway 192.168.1.254
        bridge-ports eno2
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

iface wlo1 inet manual


source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

Node3:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eno2 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.202/24
        gateway 192.168.1.254
        bridge-ports eno2
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

iface wlo1 inet manual


source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

Node 4:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface enp1s0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.203/24
        gateway 192.168.1.254
        bridge-ports enp1s0
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

iface wlo1 inet manual


source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

SDN:

#version:11

auto vxlan
iface vxlan
        bridge_ports vxlan_vxlan
        bridge_stp off
        bridge_fd 0
        mtu 1450
        alias vxlan

auto vxlan_vxlan
iface vxlan_vxlan
        vxlan-id 99
        vxlan_remoteip 192.168.1.201
        vxlan_remoteip 192.168.1.202
        vxlan_remoteip 192.168.1.203
        mtu 1450

Router VM:

 

[arrozmio]

So far I have been able to spin up VMs on the same node (node 3) as my OPNsense VM. They reach out to the internet and ping fine. Issue is when I migrate any of the VMs to any of the other nodes (i.e. node2, node1 or node00) then it loses access to the gateway and internet. I can still ping across my internal LAN network (192.168.100.XX) just need reach my opnsense gui.





Any ideas?

 

[snowturtle]

Hi, Did you get this wokring?