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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:46:11 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 198406] More than 4 esxi vmxnet3 interfaces causes vlans attached to vmxnet interfaces to stop working
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--- Comment #12 from Tomek Lutelmowski <tomasz.lutelmowski@gmail.com> ---
pfSense 2.4.4/2.4.5 under ESXi 6.7U3 here.

I had similar issue which had driven me nuts. With 4 VMXNET3 cards, under h=
igh
load (~500mbit/s) pfSense was cutting off traffic on all VMXNET3s connected=
 to
vSwitches with physical interfaces (traffic within virtual switch was fine).
During downtime, tcpdump on interface doesn't show any incoming traffic). I
tried changing VM driver to E1000, adjusting buffers, fiddle with MSI/inter=
rupt
settings, but no joy.

Then I've tried pfsense 2.5.0 (devel, BSD 12) - and the problem is gone! No=
w,
what is really, really strange... I've created another VM machine (2.4.5 RC=
) in
order to revert to more stable version. It was enough to boot up this machi=
ne,
without any configuration (but interfaces connected to VM switches), and the
problem reappeared already on working machine (2.5.0) on the same ESXi! Wha=
ts
more - I had to reboot ESXi in order to fix it, as shutting down 2.4.5 was =
not
enough.=20

If you run pfSense under VMWare, look at gateway quality statistics for dro=
ps,
you may notice than under your VMXNET3 interface (connected to physical NIC=
 via
vSwitch) may be dropping packets.=20

I hope this will help someone.

Cheers,
Tomek

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