HELP!!

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Setting up proxmox and need

IP address CIDR, would this be something like 192.168.0.255 somethig outside of the DHCP range or do i need something else?

Gateway is 192.168.0.250 or is it 192.168.0.1?

DNS server is 192.168.0.1 correct this is default for sky router

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anyone??

I just bought a mini pc and im going to erase it all and install proxmox on it

Issue im having is finding a a range outside of skys DHCP

What range should I add?

example: 192.168.0.1 is gateway or server for sky correct (router address)

I need to add something like 192.168.0.2 or 192.164.0.254 or 5,6,7, etc??

Im confused.

What would be good for proxmox

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@TimmyBGood 

@cookiemonsteruk 

@mae-3 

help please

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@FinnieFinFin 

Are you setting up a firewall with that setup one usually steps outside the range on the LAN side, so eg: 192.168.1.0 to 192,168,254 and the WAN port should point to the Sky router 192,168,0,1 when adding the firewall at the parameter one would setup that directly connected to the ONT/modem then any range is acceptable within the private address space.

Please explain further what you are doing with the mini PC.

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Hi Mae!

Trying to do this https://youtu.be/jNEjKdtMrZI?si=OFMPYlcH-YKXal1E&t=364

I have proxmox on a flash drive and want to wipe my windows mini pc for proxmox so i can run VMS, firewall, docker, kubers, etc

I'm aiming to have a small rack. The modem to the router (that will be marble from GIinet) https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-b3000/

And from the router to the mini pc (proxmox) and later other mini pc's to create a cluster

Nothing fancy. I installed fedora on an old thinkpad and hopefully after all this is done i can buy a rack to add it all in and look pretty

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Example: Aiming for this with mini pc's, managed switches, HP etc

or this

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Should I also buy fortigate or sophos or dell or hp for a firewall hardware solution to my problems for a truly secure firewall or stick to those mini routers we spoke about before?

Its frustrating because when im about to jump in and buy the hardware we spoke about a few months back. Youtubers were going back to full fledge server racks stating AI is the all new and needing more powerful systems such as tray rack systems not mini pc's etc

And Im not one for branded routers such as protectli and they are expensive especially limit restrictions etc

And now people are going back to PFsense but merging opensence inside of PF?? whyyyyyyyyyy!!!

as you know...im a noob...and its all to much for me to handle alone

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Just want to setup 1 mini pc as a proxmox but the setup process asking for the correct proxy's is where im struggling 

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@mae-3can you help me with my issue?

I just need to connect to proxmox, dont know the DHCP outside of sky to assign to the proxmox proxy

I am also stuck between those routers we mentioned before or industrial firewall routers from sophos, cisco, dell, hp, fortinet

I will need to order 3 mini pc's to cluster my homelab and have docker, kuber, netbird and other security features installed especially VM's

I will be purchasing Alta labs controller, switches and HP

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@FinnieFinFin 

One needs a fixed public IP address that Sky does not offer or a reverse proxy via a third party such as CloudFlare for a dynamic IP address.

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192(dot)168.0.1 is SKY's default subnet, right?

Im trying to setup one mini pc to act as a server for proxmox. But the proxies im adding wont work?

Management interface: default

Hostname: default

IP address (CIDR): 192(dot)168.0.255

Gateway: 192(dot)168.0.1

DNS Server: 192(dot)168.0.1

But this does not work??

What am i doing wrong...

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@FinnieFinFin 

The IP address is wrong it should be 192.168.0.2 and the subnet should be 255.255.255.0, everything else seems right for the proxy.

But you don't have a fixed public IP address so gaining access may cause an issue from the internet.

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Thank you Mae!

The Static ip address will be released by netbird or some other firewall VPN or DNS host before its released to proxmox.

Im still a noob when it comes to all the network protocols etc