Hi everyone,
Based on what I've "google'd" I don't think this is possible, however wanted to ask the question.
I have one server. Running 5 NICs on it.
2 NICs are teamed and provided access to a SBS 2011 server for the local network. This connection is as follows
Internet 1 (Public IP not Static) ------ Physical Firewall ------ Physical LAN ------ ESX (SBS2011) 2 NICs NICs 1 and 2
Now what I would like to do, is create a another LAN but seperate from the other one.
Internet 2 (Public IP not static) ------ ESX (NIC 3) ------ Software Firewall ----- vSwitch ------ LAN
However, here is my problem.
When I connect a physical computer to the second Internet connect I receive a IP address from the ISP. Perfect and expected. However;
Wen I take that same connection and plug it in directly to the ESX, I receive verification of the observered IP range, but no IP address take/assigned/or send to the Software Firewall VM. I can't "assign" a static IP, but I don't have one. As the ISP provides DHCP service. Static IP address is out of the quesion right now.
What I read was that some ISP, don't allow assignment of IP address to Vmware MAC or made up MACs. So I don't think it's possible to create actual mac address of NIC 3 and 4, since they are a part of the ESX. I thought Passthrough is an option, but the NICs are not supported that way.
Now, I guess I could put a router in front of that connect, but don't really want to add MORE hardware to that location.
Thoughts?
