EVE-NG - Real world connectivity

[itsme2501]

Hello folks,

I am working on eve-ng and thanks to the documentation and community the setup is working fine.
Now i am trying to figure out how and if it is possible to connect the real world devices with eve-ng setup.

Context :
We have a good server that is configured and several network interfaces.
The current network interface that is used is named eth0 with this config :

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# The primary network interface
iface eth0 inet manual
auto pnet0
iface pnet0 inet dhcp
    bridge_ports eth0
    bridge_stp off

That's all fine.

We have old testing devices available in our lab, physical device so we want to connect them to our eve-ng lab in order to be able to perform tests but for now i don't know how to make it works.
I need to configure two physical interfaces on the BMS, let's say eth1 and eth2, these two interfaces need to be in trunk mode with several vlans (example with vlan 10 and vlan 20) .
Then connect these interfaces on the physical device needed and configure eve-ng to allow this connectivity.

My first question is :
- Is this something possible ?
- If yes, i need to configure the interface eth1 with pnet1 but where should i configure the dot1q part ?

For now i haven't seen similar post but if you have one in mind i'll read it.
Thank you.

[mamakos]

Hello,

We connected physical devices to our bare metal server and made them "talk" to our virtual nodes.

Simply use your spare physical interfaces on your server. They will be seen as Cloud 1/Cloud 2 (number depends on you ethx) in EVE.
Then connect you virtual nodes to those Cloud 1 / Cloud 2 and you are done.
No need of VLAN. If you configure VLAN on your physical device then you can configure the same vlan directly on your virtual node. Not sure of what you meant though.