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      batman
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      hello,
      i have 12 pc windows xp ,and i will use pfsense for load balancing , when my (all) pc boot they have a error message "they existe a computer with the same name" ,when i shutdown pfsense i don't have this problem
      i seting my pfsense rule like this : http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Image:MultiWANrulesFirst.png

      i think pfsense duplicate netbios name ,i use pfsense in vmware 5.5, i install pfsense 1.0.1, the load balancing and fallover work fine but i have  netbios name problem, for a test i install (no upgrade ) pfsense 1-2 and i have the same problem
      perhaps :
      lan "netbios name 1"–> pfsense (bad nat , routing ?) --> "netbios name 1" but another ip --> lan :error netbios

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        Pootle
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        I also have this, but it hasn't caused any problems so I haven't done anything about it, I am running under VMWare server on Windows server.  The actual message I get is a "duplicate name exists on the network"
        This has happened ever since I started using pfsense (just before Christmas last year).

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          batman
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          with this problem it's imposible to use the shared printer and folder  :'(

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            cmb
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            I run large pfsense VMware labs in Workstation, Server, and ESX and have never seen this. There has to be something weird with how you're configuring things to cause such a message.

            How are your NIC's configured?  (what VMnets are they on and what do those connect to?)
            What exactly are you using it for?

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              Pootle
              last edited by

              The only iffy thing about my setup at the moment is that one of my modem subnets is running on the same lan as my inside LAN, I am planning to put in VLAN capable switches shortly, so I will know if that sorts it out.

              I am running with shared lan (suppress arp ) turned on in system - advanced at the moment.

              VMWare setup is as described in the VMWare on windows Wiki, and load balance pretty much as described in the multi-WAN wiki.

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                batman
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                @cmb:

                I run large pfsense VMware labs in Workstation, Server, and ESX and have never seen this. There has to be something weird with how you're configuring things to cause such a message.

                How are your NIC's configured?  (what VMnets are they on and what do those connect to?)
                What exactly are you using it for?

                i have the 3 pfsense nic connecte at vmnet0(default bridged)

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                  Xon
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                  @Pootle:

                  The only iffy thing about my setup at the moment is that one of my modem subnets is running on the same lan as my inside LAN, I am planning to put in VLAN capable switches shortly, so I will know if that sorts it out.

                  This is the result of the dhcp/netbios daemon responding on the WAN/OPT1 interface even when not configured to.

                  You can block this by adding a rule blocking port 67 sent to the WAN/OPT1 address on the WAN/OPT1 interface from the LAN subnet.

                  An example of what Windows reports in the Application Event Log

                  Event Type: Error
                  Event Source: NetBT
                  Event Category: None
                  Event ID: 4321
                  Date: xx/xx/2008
                  Time: 7:00:00 PM
                  User: N/A
                  Computer: <computer name="">Description:
                  The name "<computer name="">:20" could not be registered on the Interface with IP address 10.0.x.x. The machine with the IP address <wan address="">did not allow the name to be claimed by this machine.</wan></computer></computer>

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                    MindTwist
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                    Allow me to bring up this old thread, and add some more info on it.

                    I have stumbled on this exact same problem, and it happens exactly when I change my default gateway from * to a failover queue. I just finished seting up failover on my pfSense router (running on a VMware machine), I route outgoing traffic with several rules. My last rule was directing traffic to * , so unrecognised traffic would be going out of WAN, and just by changing * to FailoverTC (which is a failover queue that uses two internet connections, if one is down, it will use the second one) my XP computers will start giving me errors that there is already a computer on the lan with that name.

                    I was geting some errors on status -> system logs -> dhcp so indeed, it seemed that pfSense (which is also my DHCP server) was trying to assign twice a computer name and IP address to every computer.

                    Now, I am not exactly sure on why the following fixes the problem, but it did for me. I just put a new rule on my WAN interface, the first one, for blocking Netbios traffic on my network. I would say that DHCP does not use the same ports Netbios uses, but oh well… I used to have this rule active some time ago because I was geting garbage on my logs, but now I had it disabled (no idea why). Just enabling it again makes my XP computers not whine any more about a duplicate computer on the network.

                    Block - TCP/UDP - * - * - * - Netbios - *

                    (Netbios is an alias than contains ports 137,138,139)

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                      rapzcool
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                      I had the same problem with my network. my two routers is connected to the backbone and to the pfsense. i was having duplicate name errors. i made 3 rules blocking 3 kinds of netbios on LAN, WAN1 and WAN2.

                      i put he load balance rule below the 3 (netbios block) rules in the LAN. so far i have'nt found any problems..

                      please post any problem you might think i encounter by doing this settings.

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