My pfsense router is not seeing the internet after switching to it with my isp

[Leumas_Simeb]

Good evening everyone,

 

I've got an issue with a new pfsense router I'm setting up in my apartment and I'm wondering if you might be able to and interested in giving me a hand with an issue I'm having. 

 

I have ESXi running on one of my servers, and a vm of pfsense on that. 

 

My ISP locks each apartment down to one MAC address per apartment, so this evening I gave them a call and changed the MAC address to the one on the dedicated NIC I'll be using for my WAN interface. 

 

I set up pfsense so it's all up and running and visible on the LAN, however for some reason I can't figure out, It won't connect to the WAN.

 

If you have any ideas, it would be greatly

appreciated!

 

Here's the breakdown of the setup:

My isp jack is plugged into a dedicated single port 1gig NIC with the MAC ending in 63:e3.

I have ESXi set with only pfsense using that NIC.

In the virtual switch, I made sure the mac address is the same one that ends in 63:e3

In pfsense, I set it up to be the gateway with the wan port being the NIC that ends in 63:e3, and made sure to set the MAC address in pfsense to 63:e3. 

On a completely different NIC, I set up the lan.

Pfsense boots, acts normal, can manage everything on the lan, but can't connect to the WAN. 

I can see pfsense receives one packet from my isp, as pfsense keeps sending more and more.

 

I have tried everything I can think of however it still won't connect, and my isp is absolute that it's not on their end.

 

Thank you so much for you time!

 

Samuel

[Electronics Wizardy]

How is the virtual switch setup in exsi? Normally its a L2 switch, so you want to give it the virtual nic mac address, not the physical port, as your esxi server is basically working as a switch, not as the device connecting. Don't duplicate the mac in the vm of the physical port, you don't want 2 identical mac on one network.

 

Id personally have a seperate device for the router, makes it much easier to troubleshoot when the network goes down.

[Leumas_Simeb]

Currently I have the switch and pfsense setup with an identical MAC address. Should they be different? 

 

Yeah, I would put it on its own hardware, however I don't have anything to spare. 

[Leumas_Simeb]

Alright, I put everything with their own MAC address and the NIC is still set with the MAC address on file with my ISP. However, I still can't connect.