@JKnott

I tend to heir on the side of caution when it comes to using terminology I'm not 100% familiar with, but I have the basics down that's for sure.

Regardless, after some extensive troubleshooting I got rid of the Aruba switch and swapped it out with a Ubiquiti.
Had my network infrastructure team troubleshoot the Aruba... nobody could get it working. They let me know about how others have not been able to use Aruba equipment in the past, so i chalked it up to the switch.

@mohkhalifa said in pfSense on ESXi | Best Practices:

problem SOLVED after "Disabling hardware checksum offload"

Awesome. I poked around on a few of mine and didn't find any with that enabled. Mostly Dell hardware here. Good find.

@Asamat: Your 'this Bug' URL is this thread here. ☺

-Rico

Correct, the patches above are copies of the changes made in the repository that will be used to build pfSense 2.4.4-p1. So not "hacks" exactly.

If it's all working for you now then there shouldn't be anything to worry about. When you upgrade to 2.4.4-p1 the manually edited files will be replaced with the copies from the new release, which already contain these changes.

@jknott said in Hardware switch or NIC brridge?:

There used to be some cut through switches, that would start switching as soon as it learned the destination MAC, but those have disappeared

And there still are, the cisco nexus 5000 line did/does it... The 9000 series nexus I believe default to cut through but can be put in store and forward, etc.

So disappeared is not true... But cut through was never in the soho or budget lines of any switch maker..