pfSense VM is malfunctioning

[Jack Jones]

my pfsense vm is not working correctly, whenever I am trying to add endpoints Linux and windows, The internet is shutting down and pfSense webgui is becoming unreachable. If I restart the pfsense then it is coming back and again same problem within a minute. It is really frustrating.

[Bob.Dig]

@jack-jones Try disabling Suricata, internet is working fine here.

[Jack Jones]

@bob-dig Nothing to do with Suricata that I am sure! What is the WAN/LAN Network type you used? I am using Virtual Box's NAT Network for WAN and Internal Network for LAN, every endpoint is in same Internal Network.

[Jack Jones]

@bob-dig Is something is wrong with the Suricata? I disabled IPS block mode but just re-thinking whether Suricata causing this issue?

[viragomann]

@jack-jones said in pfSense VM is malfunctioning:

What is the WAN/LAN Network type you used? I am using Virtual Box's NAT Network for WAN and Internal Network for LAN, every endpoint is in same Internal Network.

This shouldn't be relevant.
However, I wouldn't run pfSense on VirtualBox. There are other hypervisors doing this job even better.

Some hints in the pfSense system logs regarding the outage?

[stephenw10]

If you have Suricata installed and it was ever in blocking mode it's a suspect. Be very sure that's not blocking and there are no entries in the snort2c table.

When it stops working try connecting out from the pfSense console. Is anything reachable?

Steve

[Jack Jones]

@stephenw10 Thanks, will check. as of now no issues with Ubuntu after setting up static DNS and IP.