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    pfSense on ESXi | Best Practices

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    • mohkhalifaM
      mohkhalifa
      last edited by

      Dear All,
      I need to take your recommendation for the best practices for VMware ESXi networking to work with pfSense. I'm using normal vSwitch and tagged my Firewall VLAN as the LAN interface and Tagged my WAN VLAN as the WAN interface. everything is working fine. sometimes when downloading any file from the internet I noticed that the download stops from a while and continue and also not with the full internet bandwidth.
      So, My Questions:

      • 1- Is my ESXi network method is correct or I should make something special ?
      • 2- Is there any special configuration for pfSense to work with ESXi ?

      Note: all my physical NICs are 1GB

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      • RicoR
        Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
        last edited by

        Have you checked the official documentation?
        https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/virtualization/virtualizing-pfsense-with-vmware-vsphere-esxi.html

        -Rico

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        • mohkhalifaM
          mohkhalifa @Rico
          last edited by

          @Rico That's typically what I did! but I'm still feel something wrong ?

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          • mohkhalifaM
            mohkhalifa
            last edited by

            Any Help ?

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            • kiokomanK
              kiokoman LAYER 8
              last edited by kiokoman

              are you sure is a pfsense/esxi problem and not the ISP throttling large downloads ?
              maybe with some screenshot of your config we can better find out if there is something strange/wrong
              also use wireshark/tcpdump to analyze the traffic when your download slow down
              if it's only "sometimes" (define sometimes) maybe the server you are downloading from is congested

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              • RicoR
                Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                last edited by

                VMware Tools installed?
                Try to switch from vmxnet3 to e1000 or vice versa.

                -Rico

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                • mohkhalifaM
                  mohkhalifa
                  last edited by

                  Dear all,
                  Thanks for your replies guys. Today, I did a ping test and that was the results:

                  Ping Results

                  Pinging micosoft.com [208.91.197.26] with 1500 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=217ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=218ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=217ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=218ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=218ms TTL=230
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Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=217ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=222ms TTL=230
Request timed out.
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=217ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=217ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=218ms TTL=230
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Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=219ms TTL=230
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Request timed out.
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Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=1464 (sent 1500) time=218ms TTL=230
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 208.91.197.26:
    Packets: Sent = 125, Received = 116, Lost = 9 (7% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 217ms, Maximum = 315ms, Average = 220ms

                  Pinging micosoft.com [208.91.197.26] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=32 time=216ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=32 time=215ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=32 time=282ms TTL=230
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Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=32 time=215ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=32 time=214ms TTL=230
Request timed out.
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=32 time=214ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=32 time=215ms TTL=230
Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=32 time=214ms TTL=230
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Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=32 time=214ms TTL=230
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Reply from 208.91.197.26: bytes=32 time=215ms TTL=230
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Ping statistics for 208.91.197.26:
    Packets: Sent = 279, Received = 245, Lost = 34 (12% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 213ms, Maximum = 324ms, Average = 225ms

                  So, I noticed that there is a Packet Loss !! Please Advise where excellently the problem ?
                  Thanks

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                  • kiokomanK
                    kiokoman LAYER 8
                    last edited by

                    imho probably your ISP, ping your isp gateway and see if you have the same problem, if it work without problem do a traceroute and ping every single hop until you find what is timing out, after that call your ISP
                    also check if all your cable are in good condition

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                    • mohkhalifaM
                      mohkhalifa
                      last edited by

                      I tried without pfSense directly connected to WAN VLAN, everything working fine without any problem which means it's pfSense problem 100%

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                      • kiokomanK
                        kiokoman LAYER 8
                        last edited by kiokoman

                        esxcli network nic tso set --enable=0 -n vmnic0
                        esxcli network nic cso set --enable=0 -n vmnic0
                        ?
                        i'm pretty sure it's not a pfsense problem
                        try to use another physical network interface card to connect the virtual switch to the physical switch to eliminate physical problems.
                        Immagine.jpg

                        esxi version? ESXi 6.0 is known to have host loses network connectivity randomly
                        check /var/log/vmkernel.log file, if there is evidence of transmit timeouts

                        also check if this article can help you
                        https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1004109

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                        • mohkhalifaM
                          mohkhalifa @kiokoman
                          last edited by

                          Thanks @kiokoman for you help, really appropriated. But why when I directly connected the WAN without pfSense everything goes fine ? also I tried to change the adapter type from e1000 to VMNET3 and the same problem !!

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                          • RicoR
                            Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                            last edited by

                            Again: Latest VMware Tools installed?

                            -Rico

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                            • mohkhalifaM
                              mohkhalifa @Rico
                              last edited by

                              @Rico yes sure

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                              • mohkhalifaM
                                mohkhalifa @Rico
                                last edited by

                                @Rico Open-VM-Tools v10.1.0_2,1

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                                • kiokomanK
                                  kiokoman LAYER 8
                                  last edited by

                                  did you set traffic shaping or load balancing on the vswitch ?

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                                  • mohkhalifaM
                                    mohkhalifa @kiokoman
                                    last edited by

                                    @kiokoman NO

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                                    • kiokomanK
                                      kiokoman LAYER 8
                                      last edited by kiokoman

                                      i'm tring to mess as much as i can with my vm but i'm unable to reproduce it
                                      can you do a test with pfsense 2.5.0-devel ?
                                      also i found this about the vmx driver
                                      https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vmx&sektion=4
                                      ethernet0.virtualDev="vmxnet3" i have it inside the virtual machine configuration and
                                      The hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist tunable must be disabled to enable MSI-X support.
                                      i have it set on my
                                      /boot/loader.conf.local

                                      hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist="0"

                                      also i found this but idk if it's still relevant
                                      https://forum.netgate.com/topic/88082/esxi-5-5-packet-loss/12

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                                      • B
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                                        I have a bunch of pfsense instances running in ESXi. No issues. All 2.4.4-p3 and 2.4.5-RC.

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                                        • RicoR
                                          Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
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                                          Yeah I don't think this problem is pfSense related.
                                          Can you spin up two more VMs for testing? One with vanilla FreeBSD 11.2 and another with Linux or Windows. Check if the timeouts happen in one or both test VMs.

                                          -Rico

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                                          • mohkhalifaM
                                            mohkhalifa
                                            last edited by

                                            problem SOLVED after "Disabling hardware checksum offload"

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