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      salmonbaytech
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      So I have two PFSense 1.2.3 just setup a few weeks ago after this problem happened for the first time.  And now it has happened a second time.

      I have two PFSense running happily in VMWARE ESXi 4.0, the Master becomes broken and when ever its on the internet stops working.

      IF I disable carp on the master (Fast at bootup or the PFSense becomes so slow) then the secondary takes over and internet works. As soon as I turn back on the master "enable carp" on the status page.  the internet stops working.

      My network is a WAN with 3 static IP's setup in carp. and a LAN and Wireless network setup with CARP Gateway address.  I run Captive portal on the master router for the Wireless network.

      I create and whole new install of pfsense and restored the config back to the new install and its doing the same thing.

      any thoughts?

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        cmb
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        Your vswitches probably aren't configured to allow multiple MACs. See #4 here.
        http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/CARP_Configuration_Troubleshooting

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          salmonbaytech
          last edited by

          Looks like the setting Net.ReversePathFwdCheckPromisc was added to the instructions after I original setup the system.  I changed that and all seems back to normal.

          Thanks!

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            salmonbaytech
            last edited by

            Ok, spoke to soon that did not solve the problem.

            So I have the 2 two PFSenses running on ESXI with CARP.

            Was working for over a year, then primary crashed not a new setup. When Primary is put online Internet stops working, after a few seconds.

            If a I have a command prompt open on my computer behind the setup pinging google.com, it will not fail? but I will be unable to connect to website in a new browser window.  Also, wen the primary stops working, the webinterface is unresponse until carp is disabled on the router.

            I have not found anything in the logs that looks helpful, the CPU on the router never goes above a few percent while this is happening.

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              salmonbaytech
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              Ok, how I resolved it.

              First I tried created a new router from the 1.2.3 VM, and restored the configuration from the original router.  This router had the same behavior as the failed router.

              Second I copied the running secondary router, made a few adjustments to the config so that it was the primary and it worked. It has now been running for 12+ hours with no problem.

              I would guess, that I had some config issues that I missed. User error again!

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