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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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      So that's using vmxnet3 NIC in pfSense 2.7.2 b ut with WireGuard disabled?

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        security_sharezone @stephenw10
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        @stephenw10 said in pfsense reboot randomly on vmware:

        So that's using vmxnet3 NIC in pfSense 2.7.2 b ut with WireGuard disabled?

        i use vmxnet3 NIC in pfSense 2.7.2 with #3 vpn WireGuard . only one vpn have traffic copy backup

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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          Ok great so WireGuard is still up but not passing traffic?

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            security_sharezone @stephenw10
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            @stephenw10 said in pfsense reboot randomly on vmware:

            Ok great so WireGuard is still up but not passing traffic?

            wireguard has always been active. traffic always goes to the remote point, but when I activate the backup that has the remote point as a second copy pfsense crashes

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Great we're trying to replicate it here.

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                security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10

                if desired we can make a wireguard vpn pfsense to my router and give you an nfs endpoint to simulate the backup repository and test traffic

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                  marcosm Netgate
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                  I was unable to make it panic. I set up a WireGuard tunnel between two 23.09.1 ESXi (7.0.3) VMs and tried to reproduce this in a couple ways. First with the iperf3 client/server on the firewalls themselves, then second with the iperf3 client/server on hosts behind the firewalls. Both were TCP tests, no NAT, which ran for over 8 hours each.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    @security_sharezone If you're able to test this with iperf and still trigger it that then points to the ESXi version difference.

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                      security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10

                      i have done various tests to isolate the problem and i think at this point it is the nfs outbound protocol. this is because from another true pfsense location always nfs but this time inbound i have no problems

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                        security_sharezone @stephenw10
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                        @stephenw10
                        nothing continuos crash. you have idea ?

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                          I don't personally. I don't run VMWare at all though. I know several of our devs do though and are not hitting it. Yet.

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