I have 2 vmnets bridged to adaptors in my server.
Use the 'manage virtual networks' application to bridge them, you need to manually set a vmnet to bridge to the adaptor. After entering vmware server web interface you need to refresh network list, then they should be accessible.

What I would recommend if you decide to keep the 2 WAN links is to set 2 dedicated NICs and, in windows, remove all protocols except for vmware bonding. this would make sure that you are not going to accidentally route straight from the windows host OS to the internet.

make sure to setup network bonding for the NICs you want to use (i.e. VMNET3 and VMNET4 for WAN connections, VMNET6 for LAN)

setup a virtual machine with 3 NICs (2 set for the protocol blocked NICs and 1 for LAN).  install pfSense as normal and assign WAN and OPT1 to VMNET3 and VMNET4 and LAN to VMNET6.

after that follow directions to set up WAN load balancing. I would also recommend you look into changing the NIC driver types in the virtual image to e1000 to be able to handle QoS properly inside.

depending on your existing server config and/or budget, you could get some NICs with TCP/IP offloading to absorb some of the hit.

I personally use Netgear GA311 gigabit cards which go for about 35 bucks, have TCP/IP offloading and run like tanks.

final reminder. MAKE SURE to change startup priority to start the firewall on system startup so if the host is rebooted, the firewall will come back up also. AND make sure to install Open-vm-tools package.

I think it's all working.  I plugged my DSL and into my managed switch.  Then I connected all my connections into that VLAN.  So the VMWARE is machine is working.

My VM detect a cryoto key on the system board.  How can I see if the driver for the cryptokey is working.  I have got one VPN tunnel up and running rules are in place and seems to working great.

Any thoughs?
RC

cpu does not support long mode for version 2, and 1.2.3 want see my internal network.  I am running on vista ultimate 64 with a quad phemon processor (2.51).
RC

Thanks! Worked! Appreciate the help!

Kind regards!

pfSense 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 won't install on Windows 7 Virtual PC, either.  Can't even pass disk format and disk partition part.

Will try earlier version later.

Both installed fine under VMware Workstation, however.

You need to ensure that you've configured Windows with 10.0.0.50 on Local area network 2 and removed TCP/IP from Local area network 1.

Thx, I did it!

I am waiting sunday for getting similar network traffic  …..
to be continued  ;)

The latest I read is they are still working on getting the kernal to work.
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If there is support in FreeBSD for those options, it may be possible in the future. I don't think virtio is supported even in the most current versions of FreeBSD though.

Ive put a tad more traffic on the network…

LAN interface (le1) Status up MAC address 00:0c:29:6b:26:f4 IP address 10.10.10.1  Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 Media autoselect In/out packets 728395/1259410 (113.04 MB/1.70 GB) [b]In/out errors 125/0[/b] Collisions 0 WAN interface (le0) Status up MAC address 00:0c:29:6b:26:ea IP address 216.151.xxx.xxx  Subnet mask 255.255.255.192 Gateway 216.151.xxx.xxx ISP DNS servers 4.2.2.2 4.2.2.1 Media autoselect In/out packets 1301400/726785 (1.70 GB/116.27 MB) [b]In/out errors 70/0[/b] Collisions 0

@EddieA:

Here's how to set up your VMs on ESXi with 2 NICs.  As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words:

Cheers.

I like the setup.  I am going to setup like yours :).

One NIC going to the WAN port of the FIOS router.  The other NIC for internal connections with VMs.

tnt

This thread may possibly be of interest to you, especially if your ISP supports what is being discussed there: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,23094.0.html

Congrats doomsday, you've gotten yourself banned. It's rather obvious you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, and not the slightest clue about networking. Then you attack someone who is trying to help you and clearly knows what he's doing from his 1400+ posts here.

I did it with proxmox, working pretty good.  Was wanting untangle for some utm stuff since i cant keep the l7 stuff in pfsense 2 working without blocking everything or crashing.  Works exactly as planned, i just created a dmz and didn't do a tbridge, w/ two physical nics for in/out interfaces.  Untangle pissed me off since there are no good reports for the webfilter w/ out paying for esoft.  So was looking at redesigning and putting a pf+squid back in front of untangle and converting to tbridge.  So it would be a dual pf setup w/ an untangle tbridge in the dmz mostly for layer 7, av.    its really neat, a vrouter appliance.  i can redesign on the fly, etc.  I have 4 gbit intel mobo so i have enough adapters to come back out to the real world for dmz's + portals + extra router/wan interfaces, + i can add to more to my appliance pretty quickly and cheaply.  I had to combine all the diff products to get all the functions i wanted, just had to use more hardware. i added a 2nd 2.5" 160gb 7200 drive just for the untangle vm to run on as it used the disk quite a bit, it took a few mins to boot all the way up on 1 disk, 2-4 or so, still waiting for 2nd drive to arrive.  running on a c2d e8400. would like to get it down to roughly a min and and add a vm or so… .  didn't seem to affect my internet connection at all, im only 10/1 mbps though.  like to do some real world thruput testing, vpn etc...  kinda fun project.  Slap one of those new 1156 chips deskop or server, and that would be some serious firewalling power for SMB if it can perform well.

It is no problem hardware wise….:)