It's ok now, I managed to figure it out. I will post my solution eventually. Thank you for the help

Got it. Thanks.

out the box your not going to be able to ping pfsense wan, you would have to create a firewall rule to ping the wan. Well it sure is not pfsense because it took me all of 3 minutes to install it on workstation 11 and have it working. "I have a windows 7 virtual machine on vmnet 2 same as pfsense that i am trying to get connectivity to." Where are you trying to get connectivity from?  Pfsense wan??  Well you would have to port forward, out of the box pfsense Blocks all access inbound from the WAN..  On your vm connected to the lan side can you ping pfsense lan IP?  Can you access the gui from vm connected to pfsense lan? Did you install the tools - I know tools on esxi breaks stuff, and no need to use them – you can just install the openvmtools package. [image: pfsenseworkstation11.png] [image: pfsenseworkstation11.png_thumb]

Thank you.  I, re-posted here https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=96392.0

Thanks for enlightening me on the 109% full. We did perform a reboot after freeing some disk, but it did not seem to help. I restored Sunday and Saturday - they too did not work. Restoring Friday night let  things get back to norma.

I was able to configure the PFSENSE as a transparent bridge, however, something is wrong because I cant make inbound traffic work. I can ping the machine, however, I can't connect to SSH or APACHE ports, for example. However, inside the VM (using console), I can download files and everything… What can be causing this?

If you try without vlans in your config is the bridge mode working? Not sure why you would use Net.ReversePathFwdCheckPromisc to 1 as this is discussed in VMware forum where vswitches are somehow linked. http://www.chriscolotti.us/vmware/vsphere/interesting-vmware-vswitch-advanced-setting/

Just some feedback, I had that working fine, but I really don't want to change all the servers IPs, I have decided to go for Transparent mode [Bridge] In that way I only have to move the servers from the DMZ to WAN port back in case the firewall is down for whatever reason. Servers/service can keep their current IPs and the 'design' is way much simpler. Thanks very much for putting me in the right direction.  :)

@FauxShow: Why not use regular IPSec for site-to-site connections? Perhaps you'll find the answer in the proper forum subsection. [image: pulling-hair-out.gif]

You could give your vm a hundred nics…  What are they connected too?? You want to give your vm 3 nics.. Does your workstation have 3 physical nics?  Should be at min 2, one for your WAN and then another to your lan.. Are you running on workstation on linux...  BTW current version is 11.1.2, if your on 11.0.2 your bit OLD.. I just downloaded a trial and and took all of 2 minutes to setup.. What port is your vmware workstation server listening on - by default its 443, what port are you trying to hit your pfsense webgui on? So the host only network is 192.168.144 on my setup, my normal lan segment is 192.168.9/24 -- the installed defaulted to 192.168.1 -- changed this to be on the workstation host only network vmnet1 which 192.168.144 and bing bang zoom.. So again I will ask how is your workstation network stuff setup.. Don't really care what emulator you used.. be it e1000 or vmx3 I used bridged interface that is connected to my network for WAN em0 for pfsense vm, I used the host only network for the LAN le0 in pfsense - bing bang boom clickity clickity up and running!! [image: networksetup.png] [image: networksetup.png_thumb] [image: setup.png] [image: setup.png_thumb]

its a VIF UUID's issue. i've spend last month a 3 days looking for the solution.

so..it appears i dont have a suffient enough wifi card/AP to run behind pfsense (edge router). at the moment i've left the SuperHub as the main router now and wifi (5G) connections connect to it. Only the physical connections connected to the managed switch are behind the firewall. …also, if i manage to find a resolution for the wifi, would I be forwarding all traffic to my pfsense box (and have everything managed from there?

Yeah, known documented problem. https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/VirtIO_Driver_Support#Disable_Hardware_Checksum_Offloading

yip, just like my example, use Greenshot tool to make screen-shot and obfuscate your IP, this is a forum after all ;-)

There's no problem, let alone when writing to disk… Reading from RAM is faster than reading from disk, what's currently used gets cached. Focus your debugging efforts somewhere else.

Reinstalled package from manual (https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=73258.90) fixed it.