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    Vmware esxi5.1 nic-pass through. Nic only works after rebooting guest machine

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      rabtux
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      Hi!
      I have recently installed pfsense my esxi 5.1 machine.
      I have used DirectPath I/O to pass through one the physical network card (intel card) to pfsense and I'm using this as the WAN card.
      The LAN in pfsense is virtual network card connected to a virtual switch on the esxi.

      After installing pfsense and configured all the settings the WAN card wasn't working.

      I rebooted the pfsense guest machine. After doing this the WAN card was working.

      If I shutdown the pfsense guest. And then boot it up again. The WAN card is not working.
      If I then reboot the pfsense guest. The WAN card is working again

      Maybe the pass through is not 100% ready when pfsense is booting up the first time the machine is starting? Maybe a workaround would be to get pfsense to wait a little bit before booting? Just my guess.

      Why is it like this? Does anyone have an idea of what's wrong?

      Regards,

      rabtux

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        biggsy
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        You could try auto-start for the pfSense VM and setting a delay of, say, one or two minutes?

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          rabtux
          last edited by

          Do you mean in the Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown under Configuration section on esxi?

          The problem remains the same.

          Or do you mean some place on the actual pfsense guest machine?

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            biggsy
            last edited by

            OK.  Is there a particular reason you want to pass through the one and only NIC to pfSense?

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