Crashing

[DanMc85]

I found I was getting kernel panics and reboots when either Sensei was running or Intrusion Detection was enabled on my VMWare ESXi 7 OPNSense VM with vmx drivers for ethernet.

I know the Sensei one seems to be known, but not sure on the known IDS one with vmx on vmware 7.

[franco]

IDS (IPS) uses Netmap same as Sensei so that should be the same issue.

vmxnet3 seems to be unstable on 12.1 for the time being. I heard there are patches on 12-STABLE now and we will issue a test kernel based on them shortly.


Cheers,
Franco

[gauthig]

Hello, wondering if a patched kernel for vmxnet3 and netmap was any closer.  I just upgraded to 20.7.3 and can confirm that netmap still causes a kernel panic and reboot.

Also, in the meantime, any issue with using e1000 instead?

[franco]

Yep.

# opnsense-update -kr 20.7.3-netmap
# opnsense-shell reboot


Cheers,
Franco

[Sleepwalker]

Hello, I have installed the update 20.7.3 today and as already written the error still exists.

Is there already a forecast for a patch? I'm not really keen on changing my VMs to Intel e1000. I have already tested it in a lab environment. All interfaces have to be reassigned despite the same MAC.