Sanity check ifconfig

gjaltemba

Running pfSense 2.6 with realtek nic on WAN interface. Driver is realtek-re-kmod-196.04.txz. It is wonky and the only thing that helped was was to bounce the nic.

ifconfig WAN down;ifconfig WAN up

This was annoying but simple to do until a replacement nic gets installed. Working on a script to do this conditionally. Unexpectedly, the ifconfig syntax changed for unknown reason after working for 2 days. Reboot does not help. Was I dreaming?

Current syntax runs OK but does not help

ifconfig WAN down;ifconfig WAN up
ifconfig: interface WAN does not exist
ifconfig: interface WAN does not exist

ifconfig re0 down;ifconfig re0 up

stephenw10

You should be using the real interface names at the CLI with ifconfig. So re0 probably.

Steve

A Former User

It is wonky and the only thing that helped was
to bounce the nic.

Perhaps a newer driver version will also help you out.

pkg add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg

stephenw10

You only need to do 'pkg add' there. That already does the install.

gjaltemba

@dobby_ said in Sanity check ifconfig:

pkg add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg

Thank you for your help. Output of pkg add

Fetching realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg: 100% 100 KiB 102.1kB/s 00:01
Installing realtek-re-kmod-197.00...
the most recent version of realtek-re-kmod-196.04 is already installed

A Former User

@gjaltemba said in Sanity check ifconfig:

@dobby_ said in Sanity check ifconfig:

pkg add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg

Thank you for your help. Output of pkg add

Fetching realtek-re-kmod-197.00.pkg: 100% 100 KiB 102.1kB/s 00:01
Installing realtek-re-kmod-197.00...
the most recent version of realtek-re-kmod-196.04 is already installed

Oh really odd, I was thinking it brings newer drivers
and perhaps it will then eliminate the entire problem
at all, really sad. So sorry I was thinking they will be
newer then the 1.96.xxx ones.

stephenw10

You may have to add the force flag or remove the existing pkg first because it's pulling from an external repo.