pfSense, CARP and vmware

[Karandras]

Hey,

So trying to virtualize my pfsense firewall and get some carp going. Here is what I have:

---WAN---
VIP - x.x.x.1
R1 - x.x.x.2
R2 - x.x.x.3
vlan1

---LAN---
VIP - 10.1.0.1
R1 - 10.1.0.2
R2 - 10.1.0.3
vlan2

(repeat for CONTROL(vlan3), and TEST(vlan4) network)

---PFSYNC---
R1 - 10.8.0.2/24
R2 - 10.8.0.3/24
vlan5

I can set R1 to use a virtual IP and the devices on that network can ping it. When I set the IP to be CARP it becomes unpingable. Did some reading and found this: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/72678

Is that true? Cannot CARP in an ESX environment? Has anyone successfully set this up?

Thanks!

 

[MysticRyuujin]

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/CARP_Configuration_Troubleshooting#VMware_ESX.2FESXi_Users

 

[cbuechler]

CARP is widely used in ESX, in fact none of the *.pfsense.org sites would work if CARP in ESX didn't work. There are caveats because of various quirks/bugs/features in VMware's networking. All detailed at the link MysticRyuujin posted.

 

[Karandras]

Awesome! Thanks guys! I'll get to work on that right away

[H] rox my sox

 

[Karandras]

Awesome, worked great!

One question, can you have more than one slave? I would like to do something like this:

ESX cluster1 - pfsense1
ESX cluster2 - pfsense2
Physical Device - pfsense3

?

Thanks.