Comment on choosing a NIC for OPNsense

• lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My proxmox “cluster” is a bunch of old laptops with a single consumer grade NIC in each. I wanted to isolate the VM network from my main home network (have it on a different range) while still allowing all the VM’s to transparently talk to each other regardless of which physical host they happen to be on.

  Could I have achieved this with normal vlans? I wanted an overlay network on the VM side but they still need to use my main home network to get internet and I only have a single physical interface.

  The OPNsense VM routes between the two networks (the virtual vxlan within Proxmox + my physical home network)

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Vxlan is way overkill

    It would be way more performant to use 802.1q vlan tags

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    • lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t all my consumer grade switches need to support vlan tagging? I’m pretty sure a bunch of them dont

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