[PVE-User] Proxmox VE Networking issues

[Dietmar Maurer]

> Hello all,
> I was wondering if someone could shed some light on how  
> exactly I am supposed to get public (routable) ip addresses 
> working for both OpenVZ and KVM guest OS's?

Should work by default.
 
> When I first setup Proxmox I was able to assign a public ip 
> address to the openVZ guests that I setup...that worked fine.
> 
> However after I setup a Windows 2003 server on the KVM side 
> (it's networking working fine if I used the default 
> non-routable address) I decided that I wanted to enable 
> remote desktop..which would require that I use a routable address.
> 
> After setting up a bridge (br0) on the host OS (and following 
> some online help)..none of the guest os's networking seems to 
> be working correctly :-(

What are you doing exactly? By default there is a bridge called
Vmbr0, and all VM connect to that bridge.

So why do you create a bridge called br0?

- Dietmar