Sorry my network has been limited with pfsense being down. I am at work
now trying to get caught up. My pfsense is the current version (2.1.5)
and the esxi was installed in March/April of this of this year so I
assume its the most recent that supports my hardware. Just not sure why
out of the blue things just stopped working. I have zero knowledge of
BSD so troubleshooting is somewhat limited. I did try different cables,
I ran the repair option on esxi boot/install cd. The hardware is a Dell
Power Edge 2850 with on board nics. Asides from the learning curve of
pfsense and some glitches here and there with packages it's worked for
the most part. I did add another nic to the machine which I'm told was
removed from the same type machine and is a genuine intel card. It has
the same symptoms. Connected vs Disconnect are reverse. Plugged in
ethernet cable vs not plugged in. The lights on the cards at both ends
to light when plugged but for some odd reason the vmware network setup
disagrees.
I was toying with a reinstall but that would wipe the drive and thus the
pfsense vm which I'd hate to do on a chance it may fix. I do realize
this isn't a support list for this type of situation so I'm grateful for
the information that has been given thus far. Is there a file or
something that can be edited that has this configuration?
On 11/4/2014 9:15 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
Brian,
As Jim pointed out so abruptly yesterday (and you have not
acknowledged) is that you haven't stated what version of pfSense you
are running is.
Seeing as subversions repair very nasty bugs in the software compiled
with it you may wish to share this information with us so we can help you.
On 11/3/2014 7:36 PM, Brian Caouette wrote:
It's not as easy as plugins into the other lan as their behavior is
opposite. If I plug in is says disconnected if I pull the cord it
says connected. Very messed up.
As for a low cost solution what would you recommend for hardware?
What's my cheapest way out? I currently use squid and pf block which
I understand doesn't play well with sd/cf media. Isn't the intent to
limit writes on flash media? I don't need wireless as we have a
carrier grade ap on the roof the covers the whole neighborhood. Kids
love having access to the lan down the road at their friends.
I suppose I could convert the 2850 to freenas and plex if I can build
a dedicated box that's not too pricey.
Sent from my iPad
On Nov 3, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Sean <m...@thegeekclub.net
<mailto:m...@thegeekclub.net>> wrote:
You could also just switch the NICs from the console to make the
former outside interface the inside interface and so on. Then you'd
be able to access the web GUI. Or in VMWare change the Virtual LANs
that the NICs are attached to. Or set a static and manually connect
your client PC to the (formerly LAN, currently WAN) side and access
the GUI. There's many ways it seems to resolve this but I don't
think anyone here could tell you why VMWare suddenly decided to
alter the virtual NIC assignments or if they were not altered in
VMWare then why/how they got detected in the wrong order causing
pfSense to get confused. If your wanting to fix it there are plenty
of possible ways a few of the more obvious of which are stated
above. If you're wanting to explain the cause of it then searching
vmware KB articles might be more productive than asking here. Given
the low cost of putting together a simple fanless flash-based low
power appliance (I use a "set-top" type PC) to run pfSense the whole
virtual thing doesn't make much sense to begin with unless it's just
VM's themselves that you are trying to firewall.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Jim Thompson <j...@smallworks.com
<mailto:j...@smallworks.com>> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2014, at 7:25 AM, Brian Caouette <bri...@dlois.com
<mailto:bri...@dlois.com>> wrote:
>
> Out of the blue this weekend pfsense went down. After further
investigation i've found that in VMWare 4.1 the status of the
nics are inverted. The ones that should be connected are
disconnected. The ones there had nothing plugged in show
connected. If I unplugged the cable is goes to connected and
vise verse. I powered down the server a Dell 2850 and powered it
back up. No change. I used the ESXI cd and did a repair. No
change. I can't even get to the management software because the
nics status is reversed and for whatever od reason pfsense never
auto starts. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get
this resolved?
You could update. Your hardware is quite old. Your software is
likely quite old.
First, this isn't Dell or VMware customer support.
You don't state the version of pfSense that you're running.
VMware 4.1 was first released in July of 2010. 4.1 update 3 was
releases in August 2012. There is an update to 4.1.3 in April
of this year.
The PowerEdge 2850 was released in 2005, and given that the
follow-on 2950 was first released in 2006, your 2850 dates from
nearly a decade ago.
It's likely that the savings on your power bill could pay for a
modern, low-wattage server.
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