VMWare VMXNET 3 Causing Crashes on pfSense 2.5
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I have upgraded to ESXi 6.7 from 6.5 and everything was fine till I then decided to upgrade pfSense to 2.5, it was very slow and I was having trouble acquiring a WAN IP and bringing the interface up, sometimes it would just crash and reboot. I also have a crash report from pfSense but it does seem to contain some personal information, which I would probably have to remove if posting publicly. Changing from VMXNET 3 to E1000E does resolve the issue but I would ideally like to use VMXNET 3 as I have been told it offers better performance
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I run the same setup with no issues. What physical NIC are you using?
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@cool_corona I am running an HP-DL380 G6
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@ikifar
I have a similar setup running Esxi 6.7 on HP thinclient with Intel i350 quad NIC using VMXNET 3. Never had any issues with pfSense 2.4 or 2.5. Check the network card may be compatibility issues.
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@rameshk I find this weird because it worked on the older version of pfSense, I will look up the network card. I think I should eventually get another 1U server for pfSense
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@rameshk it seems to be supported under FreeBSD 11.1
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@ikifar
If E1000 works what is the issue with that. Check the throughput using iPerf and speed test to ensure it works as expected.
If you don’t see any performance drop happy days.
