Hi,
I did the complete setup for a basic OVA deployment on two servers, I assigned two NICs to each one instance. The only config change was the IP address/gateway and WAN speed (15). The LAN and WAN are configured correctly and using the correct ports. At first I had very inconsistent results. I even completely reset it and couldn't get it to work. When it would pass traffic through the WAN it could experience high latency (2-3 seconds) even when only pulling up the WANOS admin page.
So I re-deployed the OVA from scratch on both systems and I got it to work (hit 1250K WAN cap). I reset the original OVA and still could not get it to work even matching the same config and interfaces. So I moved the MAC addresses to the new working instance, it wouldn't start because of the reserved MAC addresses in another VM. So I deleted the original VM, that of course failed still due to the reserved MAC. I am looking for a way to force the MAC in vmware to connect it with the license. Setting it manually doesn't work in VMWARE.
I have the new instance working, just not licensed. I am passing traffic through the complete system to an end device. The problem seems to be that I am unable to reach the admin page on the far WANOS box. I noticed that if I initiate a ping from the WANOS server to my PC, it pings and then my PC sees the WANOS MAC/IP, Then I can ping/login to the admin page. This is all on the same subnet. I'll try to reproduce this tomorrow.
I only need promiscuous mode on the Network Interface and not the switch under VMWARE correct?
Config:
ROUTER @ 192.168.76.1/24
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-LAN PORT
WANOS @ 196.168.76.2/24
- WAN PORT
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-WAN PORT
WANOS @ 192.168.76.3/24
-LAN PORT
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Endpoint - 192.168.76.10 (VMWARE SERVER ADMIN)
I am running ESXI 6.
Some of my original issues may have been due to expecting it to show it had an active peer with only a WAN connection. Without an end device to pass traffic through the whole system it doesn't show an active peer even if you are passing traffic to the far WANOS device.
Do you know of a way to force the MAC or just re-license?
Thanks