Port mismatch on reboot after VLAN's added

Networking & Firewalls
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I just setup 4 VLAN’s and when I rebooted it gave me a port mismatch. I ended up having to restore from backup.

pfSense prompts to re-setup the interfaces, killing all the VLAN interfaces. How do I fix this?

It was happening on 2.6 so I upgraded to 2.7 and it’s doing the same thing.

Thanks,

Dave

2

Sounds a bit odd, I’d guess it’s a config error.

Perhaps setup one vlan first and inspect the result.

It might help to configure the router and switch with vlans while they are disconnected, then connect.

3

I’ll give that a shot. The only thing I can think of that might be out of order is the fact that I have a duel Intel NIC used for Wan/Lan and the Internal card unused. The Internal was unassigned. I just assigned it but left it disabled. I’ll try one VLAN and see what happens.

Thanks,

Dave

4

If you have 3 available ports what I would do is set the first 2 as WAN and LAN, the 3rd as the parent interface for your vlans. That way if something messes up you can plug directly into the LAN nic.

5

The 3rd is the built-in RealTek, which is why it’s disabled.

The duel port is an add-on Intel.

6

Got it working. I think the issue may have been the unused NIC not being assigned.
Once assigned I started adding the VLAN’s one at a time and they all worked.