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[Question] VMWare Bridging. Additional IP? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey! I know this is maybe better suited for a VMWare group, but I can't find one with the whole Reddit fiasco. So I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction or give a bit of advice.

I have VMWare Workstation 16 currently using NAT. This has been working well for a while, as whenever I need to open a port, I just manually do it one by one. But as I've been hosting game servers it's becoming a bit tedious to do one by one and there's not an option to open ports by ranges using NAT.

I read that Bridged is what is recommended for my use case. And I've tried this but can never get it to work. I've tried deselecting all but the main NIC too.

I rent a dedicated server, I only have access to one IP with the option to purchase a secondary IP. I'm guessing it's because of this I can't get Bridge to work, because I don't have access to DHCP.

Is my only option to purchase a secondary IP, create a VM for PfSense and have that manage the DHCP? (That's even if I'm understanding this correctly)

Or would installing something like EXSi achieve what I'm trying to do?

Many thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are all your VMs on the same subnet under the NAT? If so, you should be able to set up a reverse proxy and having ir route traffic on certain port(s) to your specific servers without needing a second ip. That, of course depends on the policies of your host.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey! Thanks for your reply!

Yeah, they are. I do use Nginx Proxy Manager to access some websites that way. I don't see how I can do that with a range of ports with NPM without adding them one by one. Maybe that's a NPM limitation? Or I'm not quite sure how.

I was kind of hoping that for example on the VM opens ports 8000-9000. And all I needed to do was on my Windows Server (Hosts the VM) allow ports 8000-9000 and it would all just work haha

But because it's on NAT I have to use the Virtual Network Editor and add ports one by one.