Dual NICs proxmox server
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I am considering getting a dual NIC box to host proxmox or similar.
Looking for somebody to share experience and feedback +/- of 2 NICs and also if there is anything special from pfSense router to set it up.Thx!
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There is a chapter in the docs covering Virtualizing pfSense with Proxmox you should read.
I'm running pfSense on KVM which Proxmox is based on as well.
The only special setting I encountered is that you have to disable hardware checksum offload.If you have only 2 NICs you may have to use VLANs. The only thing to consider with that is the network traffic, since you have to share network hardware.
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What are you planning to use pfSense for in that application?
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Actually I am not planning to use pfSense on this box, I wonder how it will be set up to use dual Ethernet
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Well, there are a lot of options. You can connect any NIC to any internal Linux Bridge. You could connect them in a lagg. There are many ways you could use two NICs in a Proxmox host.
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#_choosing_a_network_configuration
Steve
