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  • ran the above and the following pops up. the MAC ending is c3 is the new one I assigned to the 20.91 address on DHCP pfsense server about an hr ago.

    EDIT: wondering whether this may be a network manager problem on the VM client? See here

    EDIT2: Even tried running ip addr flush dev <your_adapter_id> as suggested here but no effect at all

    EDIT3: This is now solved. It was a client problem. Somewhere buried in the system, a static IP had been set up on this machine in the past I image.

    When running ntmui, the 106 address was configured as static address. Deleted it and now only sees the 91 address. Didn’t realise you coudl set two IPs against same interface. This is the page that helped following advice from @[email protected] of runnign dhclient -v ens18; for i in $(seq 60); do ip a s dev ens18; sleep 1; done









  • What a surprise … if I were to believe this I would file for madness state support. Look like the VM is having a nice chat with the DHCP sever and both agree that the IP should be 192.168.2’.91. Then one of the two cheat, and actually work on 106. Logs in DHCP server a showing nothing. I even told pfSense to ignore the machine ID and it had no effect whatsoever. If there was another DHCP server hiding somewhere, dhclient would have picked that up presumably.


  • Just to be clear, this is what is in the ARP table on pfSense: and this is what is in the DHCP lease table in pfSense. What I’ve concluded is that the DHCP sees the VM is online, it probably offered the 91 IP, and just shows it online. The ARP table is showing what the actual assigned IP is (106) and SSH login attempts confirm this. There is no 106 entry in the DHCP table. I would ignore the VM2 element of the equation i described above for now. I added just to describe the conflict that arose when I switched it on. I woudl also say that VM1 was backed up on another Proxmox server I had runnina and then restore it on this new Proxmox server I have with a bigger NVMe.











  • Ok, but I assume this means that I have to configure the new node from scratch, adding the storage, etc. Correct? So the steps would be:

    a) build new node with spare Optiplex + 1 new NVMe and install Proxmox from scratch b) configure the new node and add to the cluster c) migrate the VM from old now to new node d) decomission old node but installing the 2nd NVMe and Proxmox from scratch e) add the second rebuilt node to the cluster again.

    Did I get this right?