with the demise of ESXi, I am looking for alternatives. Currently I have PfSense virtualized on four physical NICs, a bunch of virtual ones, and it works great. Does Proxmox do this with anything like the ease of ESXi? Any other ideas?

  • @[email protected]English
    1•9 months ago

    My config was more or less identical to yours, and that removed some doubt and let me focus on the right part: Without a network config on br0, the host isn’t bringing it up on boot. I thought it had something to do with the interface having an IP, but turns out the following works as well:

    user@edge:/etc/systemd/network$ cat wan0.network
[Match]
Name=br0

[Network]
DHCP=no
LinkLocalAddressing=ipv4

[Link]
RequiredForOnline=no

    Thank you once again!

    • @TCB13English
      2•9 months ago

      Oh, now I remembered that there’s ActivationPolicy= on [Link] that can be used to control what happens to the interface. At some point I even reported a bug on that feature and vlans.

      I thought it had something to do with the interface having an IP (…) LinkLocalAddressing=ipv4

      I’m not so sure it is about the interface having an IP… I believe your current LinkLocalAddressing=ipv4 is forcing the interface to get up since it has to assign a local IP. Maybe you can set LinkLocalAddressing=no and ActivationPolicy=always-up and see how it goes.