I am running pfSense on a Dell SFF.
IBM Quad Port Adapter 39Y6137 39Y6138 Intel pro 1000 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet adapter
It’s been running 24/7/365 for about 4 years now, and has generally been rock solid.
Started having connectivity problems yesterday.
pfSense would detect ports, then not:
Configuration references interfaces that do not exist: em0, em1, em2, em3
Network Interface mismatch – Running interface assignment
Valid interfaces are:
No interfaces found:
pfSense cannot continue without at least one Network Interface
Am I right to suspect the network adapter?
Everything fails, but is this reasonable?
Yeah, eventually cards will go bad. I replaced a 10gb card a few months ago because things were just going slow. Could have been the card, could have been the SFP+ module, replaced both and everything back to normal. Card and module were more than 10 years old.
FYI, you can get an Intel i350 based card brand new for around $80, this is what I’m putting in my new firewall. Intel i225/i226 based cards can be had for a little more.
Just got new network card and installed it. pfSense now seems to recognize interfaces.
I installed new disk and reinstalled pfSense.
Noticed that the new card interfaces come up igb0, 1, 2, 3.
Old card used to be em0, 1, 2, 3
New pfSense install is not handing out address and I cannot log into it from lan pc.
No idea why LAN pc is not getting address.
I want to reload old config file, but worried about igb vs em numbers for ports.
Any thoughts?
In the console you can reassign the interfaces to the new physical names. Then once you have web gui access you can then reassign all the VLAN interfaces to the new parent interface.
After you got the new card installed it should have promoted you to assign the new interfaces. If not might be able to reboot to get the prompts again. I’m not talking about the web GUI I am talking about a monitor hooked up or the console.
You can also edit the config backup, but you’ll still need to have at least one interface that allows you to get into the system (I think). I can’t remember if you can restore a backed up config from the VGA terminal.
Also I thought that if you had a USB drive (fat32) with the backed up or edited config, and you reinstallled the system, it would load that config during the process. Or is this an OPNsense thing only.
I am able to connect to pfSense, but pfSense is not connecting to my cable modem (WAN).
I can connect to the cable modem directly with my PC.
See attached screenshot of pfSense status page.
I am using pfSense 2.7.2
Notice that dpinger Gateway Monitoring Daemon is not running (and won’t start)
WAN interface is showing up but will regularly go down and then right back to up.
WAN DHCP (IPV4) is not showing in the Gateways…I have it in the setup.
So “once again” I am stumped.
Just FYI there are alot of fake intel quads out there on ebay. I ended up with a couple of fakes which worked fine in pfsense but started to have weird issues after a year. So I did some research on how to spot real deals vs fakes.
I will dig up a link to the article on how to spot them.
EDIT: Below is the link to the article. For me I was buying the i350-T4 as it’s known to work fine in pfsense.
Error 65 is ‘no route to host’, so it means you have no route to the gateway at that time. Either it’s not in your subnet or somehow the interface doesn’t have a route to its subnet.
Every single other feature in the real/junk comparison points to it being real. I guess I’ll have to see how long the 10Gtek branded one I bought lasts, at least they aren’t trying to deceive you into thinking it is genuine Intel. I probably should have splurged for the i226 cards.
