[Solved] New ESXi install, can't get DHCP or any connectivity on LAN.
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For the sake of just getting this working I'm only using the two integrated NICs on this ESXi v5.5 host.
NIC0 = LAN & ESXi Management
NIC1 = WANI went through the usual ESXi pfSense configuration and install, which I've done plenty of times before. I do not have the NICs mixed up in ESXi or pfSense, checked this about 100 times to be sure. I even compared virtual MAC addresses to confirm.
If I set my laptop to a static IP on the same subnet as the ESXi host I can access the host via the vSphere client and configure pfSense. Once configured I can see that WAN is getting DHCP from the cable modem, and that the LAN has a static IP/24.
If I set my laptop's IP to something in the subnet of pfSense LAN, I can not ping it or access web configuration. If I set my laptop to DHCP it fails to see or get anything from the DHCP server, which in this case should be pfSense.
I have never had this problem before, and unlike all my other ESXi/firebox/etc pfSense installs this current one is for work and I need to get this working fast because I'm trying to sell my bosses on the use of pfSense and so far they're not impressed. :(
EDIT: I am not setting a gateway on LAN, and I've tried both my own static LAN IP and the default LAN IP during the initial pfSense CLI configuration.
EDIT2: I'm using the "pfSense-LiveCD-2.1.4-RELEASE-i386-20140620-1259" install. The host is a dual Xeon x6 server with 16GB RAM and 2x integrated Gb NIC. ESXi is version 5.5
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Went ahead and did a fresh install of ESXi v5.5 on that server which I'll follow up with a fresh install of pfSense 32bit. Will report back in a few with the results.
I also installed a brand new Intel gigabit PCI NIC. The plan is to have…
NIC0 - Management
NIC1 - WAN
NIC2 - LAN(PCI NIC) -
Reinstalling both appeared to work and I got in to the web config finally, but had no WAN…when I did the initial CLI configuration via vSphere I didn't have the modem plugged in because I didn't know what caused the problem on the first install.
Plugged in the modem, verified proper configuration of both integrated NICs, tried a release/renew in web config, nothing.
Rebooted pfSense, still no DHCP from the modem. Did a release/renew in web config, still no DHCP from the modem. Was working fine before the reinstall. :\
Host doesn't see PCI NIC, but that's another problem for another day.
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Rebooted modem, everything seems to be working now.