Comment on Going nuts with networking of VMs on Proxmox (SOLVED)

• tiptoes@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  DHCP can be set to specifically assign the same IP to specific devices, reserving them and ensuring that no other systems will use the same IP accidentally. So your servers will consistently get that same IP address assigned to them every time, no worry about the ip address changing unexpectedly.

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh ok, it’s what I did. I set the client’s IP as fixed on my router.

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  • trilobite@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can I just check with @tiptoes@sh.itjust.works and @Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works that what I’m doing is what you are saying.

    I’m not setting static IPs at client level. Would be a nightmare. What I do is assign IPs on the DHCP server i.e MAC address on VM1 is XX:XX:XX:XX so I set this MAC address in DHCP to correspond to IP 192.168.20:XX so that the machine gets a unique IP all the time. Is this what you meant? I thought everyone would be doing this nowadays as it so easy to manage, except when something goes wrong like in this case.

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    • Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No what I meant is I don’t use dhcp at all, but apparently I am an old gremlin and all these youngsters do it some variation of your way. If you want ro do it like that I leave you with them.

      No worries, I just don’t want to get you confused

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