Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests

2010-10-07 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 03:53:54PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: That's not the normal experience from what I've seen, sounds specific to something in particular you're doing. I believe every environment I've seen that routes

RE: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests

2010-10-07 Thread Greg Hennessy
Buechler [cbuech...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 October 2010 15:32 To: discussion@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 03:53:54PM -0400, Chris

RE: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests

2010-10-02 Thread Adam Thompson
It works, but performance is, in my experience, poor. Don't use trunking (802.3ad / LACP) and VLANs together, or inter-vlan routing slows down drastically. This appears to be a VMWare problem, not a pfSense problem. I recommend creating one virtual Ethernet device per network, and in fact

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests

2010-10-02 Thread Scott Ullrich
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca wrote: It works, but performance is, in my experience, poor.  Don't use trunking (802.3ad / LACP) and VLANs together, or inter-vlan routing slows down drastically.  This appears to be a VMWare problem, not a pfSense problem. I

RE: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests

2010-10-02 Thread Adam Thompson
Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca wrote: It works, but performance is, in my experience, poor. Don't use trunking (802.3ad / LACP) and VLANs together, or inter-vlan

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests

2010-10-02 Thread Tim Dressel
Hi folks, I did this for about 6 months to do evaluations of Exchange 2010 and Zimbra. My cluster had two VM hosts, each with 6 nics (2 onboard used for heartbeat, and an an in Intel PCIe quad port). I defined a LAN (vswitch) internal to the cluster only for traffic between all the VM's and the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense router/firewall in a Vmware ESXi guest for other guests

2010-10-02 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca wrote: This started with 4.0, I have upgraded to 4.1 but haven't specifically tested performance since.  Routing from one VLAN to another entirely inside VMware is still slow, however.  AFAIK this is somehow related to interrupt