PfSense ESXI

pfRoss

Hi guys,

I'm having an issue with my pfSense lab in ESXi.

This is the current NIC configuration, and with my the Ubuntu VM turned on, it can't get an IP from pfSense and I'm not sure why.

It's worth noting that this is a network inside of a network.

Does anyone have any ideas?

I don't have anything physical connected to that port on the NIC itself, the only thing that's connected to the NIC is a cable from a wireless repeater to enable internet access from my ACTUAL home router (this is the WAN interface in pfSense.)

Thank you in advance.

gjaltemba

In Ubuntu, what is the output of vmtoolsd -v?

johnpoz

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?

pfRoss

@gjaltemba:

In Ubuntu, what is the output of vmtoolsd -v?

VMWare Tools daemon, version 9.4.10.37835

@johnpoz:

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 :-\

johnpoz

is dhcp server running? Your saying it works if static, but no dhcp - well what does pfsense show you, is it seeing dhcp discover?

pfRoss

@johnpoz:

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.

heper

dhclient is not the dhcp-server …

pfRoss

dhcpd service is started and running. This is driving me nuts.

heper

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 ?

pfRoss

Correct.

I'm going to setup the vSwitches and try again.

pfRoss

Ok, that didn't help.

Is there anything more I can do to debug this? It's just refusing to work.

heper

packet capture on pfsense and on other vm's to figure out where it goes wrong.

pfRoss

@heper:

packet capture on pfsense and on other vm's to figure out where it goes wrong.

So tcpdump right?

johnpoz

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

requestordiscover.png_thumb

heper

@pfRoss:

@heper:

packet capture on pfsense and on other vm's to figure out where it goes wrong.

So tcpdump right?

Diagnostics: Packet Capture

and/or wireshark on your vm's

johnpoz

yeah you can fun tcpdump from ssh or console as well.

pfRoss

Cannot believe I screwed this up so badly. My apologies guys… Quite simply I had the interfaces assigned wrong. :'(