Network Death on 1 VNIC

[agentsmith]

hi All,

I have :
Host: N54L + Windows 2008R2 + VB 4.3.22
NIC1: Intel Gigabit to LAN
NIC2: Broadcom NetXtreme to WAN
PFsense running as VM with 4vNIC. 3 are attached to the LAN, 1 is attached to the WAN.

The issue I have is after a random period the WAN side becomes unresponsive which the VM is unaware of. Disable re-enable of phys adapter does nothing, as does detach and re-attach of the "cable connected". In trying to "forward-fix" (instead of reboot) today I found that changing the vNIC 2 from one pNIC to the other fixed the issue, however I see in the logs this triggers an instantaneous suspend/resume operation which would appear to be the 'fix'.

Has anyone seen such behaviour before?

thanks, Dave.

NB. Pls ignore the fact I shutdown the VM shortly after, it was fixed at this point

[loukingjr]

This might help... viewtopic.php?f=1&t=66067#p312593

[agentsmith]

thanks for that. I've gone to r98406 - let's see if it's still an issue (probably will be as it's bridge rather than NAT, but you never know!).

cheers.

[agentsmith]

Issue had occurred again by this morning.

Anyone able to indicate what I might need to do to capture the 'issue in the logs?

the issue has occured between these two timespans:
00:00:37.574992 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xc4 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
00:00:37.587970 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: finished processing RESET
00:00:37.688042 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#1: RESET, DevSel=0 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xa0 (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)
00:00:37.698754 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#1: finished processing RESET
15:30:44.933866 UIMachineLogic: Host-screen geometry changed.
15:30:45.351660 UIMachineLogic: Host-screen available-area changed.
15:31:42.324122 Entering S5 power state (power down)
15:31:42.378884 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'POWERING_OFF'

thanks a lot.