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    Queries getting ignored on pfsense configured as a proxy - network cards?

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      p0ddie
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      Hi there,

      I have set up pfsense with squid as a caching proxy for two separate networks. The problem is that many queries from the network are ignored/stuck, meaning: I enter a website in a browser, eventually the query times out. I need to hit enter on my address bar multiple times before I can get a connection.

      It happens with all the computers behind the proxy.

      I suspect there is some network fubar going on outside of pfsense on the virtualization/host OS layer that causes this.

      We have (currently the only stuff this school can afford) the following setup:

      • Pentium 4 Windows 2003 Server with VMWare Workstation 7

      • 1GB of RAM allocated to the VM (only VM running currently)

      • pfsense 2.0.3 32bit with squid 2.7 package, 2 network interfaces configured for 2 different subnets

      • The host has two Realtek NICs

      • VMware is set up to bridge one NIC to vmnet0 and the other NIC to vmnet1

      • the NICs in pfsense are emulated as Intel (em0/em1/em2)

      • the proxy connects to a gateway with content filter (Lancom router with their content filter package)

      I am guessing the problem evolves around some Windows ethernet driver issues… could I be right?

      Solutions that come to mind are:

      • put an Intel NIC into the host
      • upgrade Vmware
      • ditch Windows 2003 for e.g. Ubuntu as host
      • do a bare metal install
      • tweak some network settings in Vmware or Windows
      • tweak the network settings in pfsense

      I hope to have given all relevant information.

      Do you guys have an idea of what is going on and how to solve this? Thanks!

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        craigduff
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        Why don't you chuck on VMware esxi free onto the box as a hypervisor and p2v server 2003 and virtualise pfsense. Should work much better.

        Kind Regards,
        Craig

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          p0ddie
          last edited by

          while that is a good idea and the plan for the school is to eventually virtualize everything with ESXi, I'm more interested to solve the issue with the resources at hand - school's on a tight budget and can't afford IT guys to spend half a day to set up ESXi after virtualizing their stuff…

          I guess I'll try with an Intel NIC first, see if it works.

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