Hello Forum,
I hope somebody here has pointers for a solution. I'm not familiar with KVM so perhaps am missing an obvious step.
Environment: TrueNAS SCALE 22.02.1 for testing on ESXi with 2x VMware E1000e NICs on separate subnets plus bridged network. Confirmed that shares, permissions, general networking, etc. work.
Following the steps in the forum, this Jira ticket, and on YouTube I'm able to setup a bridged interface for VM's by assigning the IP to the bridged interface instead of the NIC. Internally this seems to work as intended, but no matter what I try, I cannot get external network connections to work from and to the bridged network.
When I remove the bridged interface and assign the IP back to the NIC itself, external connections are available again, I can ping in and out, and the GUI and shares can be contacted.
What I tried so far:
- Upgrading the 2.02.1 release to the latest nightly - No changes
- Executing the steps in different order - No effect
- Adding a second NIC for the bridged network - The GUI on a dedicated network stays alive, but no further improvements
- Made sure to reset the configuration for the NICs through the GUI - No effect
- Followed this tip to manually bind br0 to the upstream NIC - No effect but did make sure all interfaces are up
- Manually adding routes - Don't think this is needed, but no effect
- Direct connection of VM to NIC - Not sure if this is supposed to be possible, but I couldn't make it work either
Brian
I hope somebody here has pointers for a solution. I'm not familiar with KVM so perhaps am missing an obvious step.
Environment: TrueNAS SCALE 22.02.1 for testing on ESXi with 2x VMware E1000e NICs on separate subnets plus bridged network. Confirmed that shares, permissions, general networking, etc. work.
Following the steps in the forum, this Jira ticket, and on YouTube I'm able to setup a bridged interface for VM's by assigning the IP to the bridged interface instead of the NIC. Internally this seems to work as intended, but no matter what I try, I cannot get external network connections to work from and to the bridged network.
When I remove the bridged interface and assign the IP back to the NIC itself, external connections are available again, I can ping in and out, and the GUI and shares can be contacted.
What I tried so far:
- Upgrading the 2.02.1 release to the latest nightly - No changes
- Executing the steps in different order - No effect
- Adding a second NIC for the bridged network - The GUI on a dedicated network stays alive, but no further improvements
- Made sure to reset the configuration for the NICs through the GUI - No effect
- Followed this tip to manually bind br0 to the upstream NIC - No effect but did make sure all interfaces are up
- Manually adding routes - Don't think this is needed, but no effect
- Direct connection of VM to NIC - Not sure if this is supposed to be possible, but I couldn't make it work either
Brian