Bridging virtual nic and physical nic in virtual environment
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Hello,
I am having trouble bridging 2 nics in pfsense.
What I have: a 4 port network card passed through to a pfsense machine on esxi that is working great.
One of the ports is assigned to WAN.
One virtual vmxnet3 nic that is assigned to LAN in pfsense and connected to the common vswitch in esxi with the rest of the vms. This vswitch also has an uplink physical port that is connected to my wireless ap to connect the rest of the devices.
What I need: connect a network printer to the infrastructure. The printer is next to the physical server, and not close to the wireless ap. I do not want to install another network equipment as I already have the necessary hardware in the server (network ports).
When following this tutorial: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/bridges/interfaces.html (Quick but Tricky: Reassign the Bridge as LAN) to make a bridge between the existing vmxnet3 virtual nic and one of the physical nics, after the final reboot, none of the ports will be able to communicate and I do not know why. The steps to follow in the tutorial are very easy to follow. I do not know why it is not working for me.
Has anybody had issues trying to bridge one virtual and one physical nics?
Another method I was trying was to add another uplink to the vswitch in esxi, but. this will not work as a network switch between uplinks so it is not useful for me here.