Comment on Going nuts with networking of VMs on Proxmox (SOLVED)
Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoDhcp and ensuring it works is someting I don’t care about. I tell the kernel wich packets it should be interested in and how to sign itself and that will be it thank you very much.
I configure static routes and have all my machines and network segments neatly arranged in my database. I setup a new machine I know exactly what address it should have,it goes up and until it has a problem it will keep the address it was installed with.
Its 2026 I work like that, you can have your opinions I have mine. The difference is that I depend on one less thing that I don’t care about, so I have more profit margin.
tiptoes@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Very old school; yes you can certainly do all of that and track all of that yourself. We all used to do it that way……But it’s 2026….just as you’d use a real editor rather than edlin, or password managers rather than text files, the new ways ARE better, easier and more consistent. Making sure dhcp works is one of the modern (honestly not that modern) basics that make sure your network is set up properly and isn’t hiding some misconfiguration gremlins that only work because of some static ip and route workaround you implemented years ago and worked “until now”.
Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
You can have some weird workaround creep up yesrs later also with dhcp and dns ,😉
tiptoes@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Heh true enough. And you can run into issues with package updates breaking something. But hopefully that breaks things for others too so there’s some shared misery there rather than just having to curse your past self for decisions you no longer remember? 🤣