PfSense ESXI
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In Ubuntu, what is the output of vmtoolsd -v?
VMWare Tools daemon, version 9.4.10.37835
Does 2k12 r2 get an IP? If you connect the phy nic to a network do those get an IP?
What vnic did you give to ubuntu? Does it work if you give it a static?
No it doesn't get an IP.
Ubuntu works if I give it a static.
Ubuntu gets the VMNIC2 which is on the LAN.
I don't get anything if I plug directly into that port either :-\
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is dhcp server running? Your saying it works if static, but no dhcp - well what does pfsense show you, is it seeing dhcp discover?
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is dhcp server running? Your saying it works if static, but no dhcp - well what does pfsense show you, is it seeing dhcp discover?
Yeah, the service is running. However if I set it as static, it doesn't show in pfSense's DHCP leases status page. So confused right now.
HOWEVER I've just checked the logs and…
This is the output of ps aux | grep dhclient
I also can't ping 192.168.2.1 on the Ubuntu machine when it has a static address.
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dhclient is not the dhcp-server …
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dhcpd service is started and running. This is driving me nuts.
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so you can ping from pfsense to another guest when setting static ips ; but dhcpd doesnt work ?
is there anything special about the vswitch configuration ?
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Correct.
I'm going to setup the vSwitches and try again.
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Ok, that didn't help.
Is there anything more I can do to debug this? It's just refusing to work.
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packet capture on pfsense and on other vm's to figure out where it goes wrong.
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packet capture on pfsense and on other vm's to figure out where it goes wrong.
So tcpdump right?
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Looks to me like your not seeing dhcp discover, so either your not sending them or for some reason your server is not seeing them..
your dhcp server log would show discovers or requests
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yeah you can fun tcpdump from ssh or console as well.
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Cannot believe I screwed this up so badly. My apologies guys… Quite simply I had the interfaces assigned wrong. :'(
