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« on: August 22, 2008, 09:57:54 pm »

Hey,

I _FINALLY_ solved the problem of why my pfSense virtual machine was causing a massive bottleneck on my network. It had promiscuous mode turn on for vxn0 (the LAN device) when it wasn't called for! vxn0 is attached to a gigabit LAN adapter that serves the host system as a fileserver. Naturally, unbelievably high CPU usage spikes ensued.

I couldn't figure out why ifconfig vxn0 -promisc replied with "vxn0: promiscuous mode enabled". After poking around the services and disabling BandwidthD, "ifconfig vxn0 -promisc" didn't have anything to say at all, but it was finally disabled.

I checked the configuration and sure enough, "promiscuous" was unchecked in BandwidthD.

Bug, much? =\
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