@stephenw10

Yes it is. And I disabled vmware virtual network local dhcp

ANd it works. Thank you for your patience ! You really helped me out on this, have a nice day/night

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As always is the case, I resolved this minutes after posting.
It's quite an obscure setting but I needed to also enable Security --> Forged Transmits in the vSwitch.

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-7DC6486F-5400-44DF-8A62-6273798A2F80.html

That is a layer 2 issue. Either that NIC is not passed through to pfSense correctly or the ONT is rejecting the MAC address. Rebooting would normally reset that bit not always.

Try some other device using the public IP directly. If that also fails and the Netgear is the only thing that works you will need to spoof the MAC address or call the ISP and have them reset it.

Steve

Sorry. I have no idea what you are even asking.

The basic things that need to be changed to run pfSense HA in VMware ESXi are described here:

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/highavailability/troubleshooting-high-availability-clusters.html?highlight=esxi#hypervisor-users-especially-vmware-esx-esxi