PfSense hangs after NAT of Firewall changes
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I have following network configuration:
Hardware router:
Wan - 10.10.234.34/24 ISP network (static ip NAT enabled)
LAN - 192.168.2.1/24 my home networkIn my home network there is a box with single network adapter connected to the router and VMWare server installed.
One of VMs is running pfSense it has 2 virtual network adapters, both briged to host machine network adapter:
WAN - 192.168.2.10/24
LAN - 192.168.1.1/24
pfSense esteblishes PPTP over WAN (the ISP provides internet access in such manner)Two other VM, one phisical box and SIP adapter have IPs from 192.168.1.1/24 and gw 192.168.1.1
Everything works fine unless I change anything in NAT or Firewall configuration. In 70% of cases such changes lead to pfSense hang and only way to bring it up is VM restart.
Any ideas?
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You shouldn't bridge both interfaces to the same interface, use a second interface for one of them. You should also run VMware tools and use vmxnet, the vlance doesn't work all that well.
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I've done as you recommended.
Now pfSense ethernet adapters are connected to two different physical ones.
WAN - 10.10.234.24/24
LAN - 192.168.1.1/24HW Router is used as switch (wan port is not used)
vxnet and vmtools are installed
pfSense still hangs after firewall setting changes…
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I've localized the problem, it is in OpenVPN over PPTP. I created new thread in OpenVPN forum
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,9168.0.html (hope it allowed by forum rules :) )