Cannot get WAN IP automatically in ESXi
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First time to post here, sorry for my poor English~
I've an ESXi machine and a pfSense box at home, and two WAN connections at 200Mbps and 100Mbps.
The pfSense box is running fine, however I'm trying to move the pfSense to a VM in the ESXi and faced a problem.
The standalone pfSense box can get the WAN IP automatically on start and when the cable plug in, which I considered it to be normal.
However, in the VM pfSense, when the cable plug in, the web configurator interface shown a green up arrow, while the IP remains 0.0.0.0
It will not get the IP correctly, no matter how I renew the IP.
But, if I reboot the VM pfSense in ESXi, it can get the IP correctly.
This issue also happened when I reboot the ESXi, and let the VM pfsense auto start, 0.0.0.0 for the WAN, until I reboot the VM pfsense in ESXi manually.
My setup:
ESXipfsense
(E1000 as LAN and Vt-d passthrough an Intel ET dual port card as the two WAN interface)
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Have you ever tried to disconnect the 'virtual network cable' instead of the real one?
The running vm doesn't really get it when you disconnect the physical cable.
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How can I disconnect the virtual cable? Do you mean in ESXi?
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Just go into the settings of the vm and choose the networkadapter.
Uncheck 'connected' - click OK.
Again into the settings of the vm - choose networkadapter - check 'connected' - click OK.I've just seen that you have the WAN interface connected as a passthrough device. This interface can unfortunately not be separated virtually.
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Is there a particular reason you passthrough the Intel ET card to pfSense rather than letting ESXI virtualize the WANs?
It may be worth a try.