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    PfSense on Proxmox VE, 3 NIC but cant ping host

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      sintei
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      Hello,

      After searching for a while and spent the whole day to figure out what the problem is, I now ask for help.

      I have a server with Proxmox VE.
      On this I run PfSense as a VM.

      I have added another NIC (10GBE) and wanted this NIC to be the LAN NIC.

      In Proxmox I added the NIC to the PfSense VM so It shows up in PfSense GUI.
      I changed all the VMs in Proxmox to utilize this new NIC (bridge) as well and it works fine.

      However.. I can't ping the Proxmox host from anywhere (including PfSense!).
      Luckily before this I had OpenVPN configured and when I connect via OpenVPN, then I can ping Proxmox GUI and enter it.

      Since it works via OpenVPN then it must be a rule I have missed or something else.

      My gateway in PfSense is 192.168.1.1
      And I have 192.168.1.1/24 as a static IPv4 configuration in PfSense LAN.

      The VPNLan is on 192.168.1.70/24

      On my LAN i have a rule "allow from any to any" on the LANnet

      I really need help troubleshooting this as I've sunk my network several times today.

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        sintei @sintei
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        I solved the issue "the easy way".

        I went into Proxmox and changed VMBR0 bridge from old interface NIC to new interface NIC instead of having a new bridge along with setting back the IP and gateway.
        And subsequently I changed the same in PfSense back to use the old NIC.
        As it works and I'm no network genius, I'll leave it be for now :)

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