VMWare ESXi 5, pfSense 2 and Virtual IPs

Pfefers

Hi

I am testing a few firewall distros in vmware Esxi 5, before going into production in a couple of months.
Initially, I will be running all my hosts within a single server.

I want to have one inside network and one WAN network.

This is how my setup looks now:
vSwitch (not plugged to a NIC): Internal (192.168.1.0/24)
vSwitch (plugged into physical NIC0): WAN (22.22.22.0/24)

I installed pfSense, and connected and configured the two interfaces:
Internal: 192.168.1.1
WAN: 22.22.22.2 (Gateway: 22.22.22.1)

I have configured other two hosts, running (one win win7,
other with winXP,
other with CentOS, on the Internal network, with IPs (DHCP configured in pfSense):
inside_host_1_Win7: 192.168.1.106
inside_host_2_WinXP: 192.168.1.166
inside_host_3_CentOS: 192.168.1.103

All the 3 hosts can ping each other.
All the 3 hosts can ping the pfSense box (192.168.1.1)
I configured NAT and all the 3 hosts have Internet access.

I configured a Virtual IP, 22.22.22.10
The I configured NAT to the inside IP 192.168.1.166

However, I can't make the virtual IPs to work.

Any ideas what could be happening??

Pfefers

Nevermind, I figured it out.

This is what I did:
1. login into the firewall webgui
2. go to Firewall -> Virtual IP
3. Update virtual IPs
Type: Proxy ARP
Interface: WAN
IP addresses: single IP
Address: 22.22.22.10

Edit your virtual IPs with the new IPs provided
4. go to Firewall -> NAT
5. Select the Port Forward tab
6. Create new rule:
Interface: WAN
Protocol: TCP
Source: NA
Destination: Type: (select your previously created VIP)
Destination port range: from: MSRDP to: MSRDP
Redirect target IP: 192.168.1.166
Redirect target port: MSRDP
NAT Reflection: Use system default
Filter rule association: Rule NAT

Hope this helps someone!

Cheers!