I am stuck on a networking problem in setting up Rancher in HA mode and would appreciate any advise on how to solve the issue. What I am trying to active is to not expose the Rancher cluster nodes by putting them on a different subnet behind a load balancer.

Load Balancer  VM IPs - 10.155.156.40 and 172.16.1.10
3 Rancher cluster nodes IPs - 172.16.11/16, 172.16.1.12/16 172.16.1.13/16
These VMs are on a physical server on which I have created two IPs on the same interface - 10.255.156.85/24 and 172.16.1.2/16
Gateway: 10.255.156.1

I am able to ing between the host and each VM. I am also able to ping between LB and the Rancher VMs. I am unable to curl the RKE2 download

curl -sfL <https://get.rke2.io> | sudo sh -

. from the Rancher VMs. Basically curl fails even on google.com and 8.8.8.8. Curl does work from the LB VM.