Proxmox question

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• CamoYoshi

  February 2021

  In this circumstance you would go for a masquerading setup since you need to follow proper IANA rules and use a internal IPv4 range behind your NAT (similar to your network at home) running on the Proxmox server itself. The example they give is perfectly fine to copy and paste into your config. You can then statically assign IPs to your VMs, or if you wanted to take it a step further, install dnsmasq and have it only hand out addresses to your VMs, changing the binding appropriately.

  Masquerading also allows for port forwarding in this scenario. I got this just by doing a bit of searching around:

  https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-forward-ports-through-a-linux-gateway-with-iptables

  Here's an example that forwards port 80:

  sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -p tcp --syn --dport 80 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT

  Hopefully this is enough to get you started. iptables syntax can be very verbose and overwhelming but thankfully once you see what each flag does, it is quite human readable.

  Best of luck!

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• havoc OGContent Writer

  February 2021

  @CamoYoshi said:
  In this circumstance you would go for a masquerading setup since you need to follow proper IANA rules and use a internal IPv4 range behind your NAT (similar to your network at home) running on the Proxmox server itself. The example they give is perfectly fine to copy and paste into your config. You can then statically assign IPs to your VMs, or if you wanted to take it a step further, install dnsmasq and have it only hand out addresses to your VMs, changing the binding appropriately.

  Masquerading also allows for port forwarding in this scenario. I got this just by doing a bit of searching around:

  https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-forward-ports-through-a-linux-gateway-with-iptables

  Here's an example that forwards port 80:

  sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -p tcp --syn --dport 80 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT

  Hopefully this is enough to get you started. iptables syntax can be very verbose and overwhelming but thankfully once you see what each flag does, it is quite human readable.

  Best of luck!

  Thanks Camo. I shall give that a shot tonight after work.

  Must admit iptables is still a mystery to me

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• Falzo

  February 2021 edited February 2021

  @havoc said: Bit confused as to what routed config means by the additional IP block

  this is actually the answer to your question. literally.

  If I'm running proxmox on a VPS with one external IP

  no additional (external) IPs, no routed config.
• CamoYoshi

  February 2021

  @havoc said:
  Must admit iptables is still a mystery to me

  Join the club

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• Asim OGServices Provider

  February 2021

  I always add a RouterOS VM and configure everything via that. Serves perfectly on 1GB disk and 512MB ram

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• havoc OGContent Writer

  February 2021 edited February 2021

  OK finally got port forwarding to work...took a bit of trial & error

  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback
  
  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet static
          address 148.XXX.XXX.XX2/24
  
  gateway 148.XXX.XXX.XX2
  
  #Till here is defaults per proxmox
  
  auto vmbr0
  iface vmbr0 inet static
          address 10.10.10.1/24
          bridge-ports none
          bridge-stp off
          bridge-fd 0
  
          post-up   echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
          post-up   iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s '10.10.10.0/24' -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
          post-down iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -s '10.10.10.0/24' -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
  
  #Portforward port 2222 external to 22 on the VM
          post-up iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 2222 -j DNAT --to 10.10.10.57:22
          post-up iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -d 10.10.10.57 -j ACCEPT
  
  #The VM here has static IP 10.10.10.57 and needs to have it's gateway set as 10.10.10.1 which is the bridge
  

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• CamoYoshi

  February 2021

  @havoc said:
  OK finally got port forwarding to work...took a bit of trial & error

  Nice work man! Glad you got it working.

  Cheap dedis are my drug, and I'm too far gone to turn back.