pfSense not enabling port

georgelza

@Gblenn
ok, interesting... figured that implied it was working...
even though as you said ip a actually said otherwise.

so it's starting to look like the Pmox host is also not linked to the Unifi pro max...

wondering if this is caused by the switch... think i might need to "engage" some patience and wait for that 2nd SFP+ to arrive and then the DAC cable and then see from there.
Will first try them on the pmox host, as it's more compatible with anything and confirm they work, then if all good there then move them to the pfSense host.

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Gblenn

@georgelza said in pfSense not enabling port:

Hmm, do you always assign IP from Proxmox? I'm not sure what Proxmox will do in this case... as I would imagine it is Proxmox handling the ICMP request within it's virtualization environment.

If you had a VM that you assigned vmbr30 to (leaving the ipv4 part empty), it would be assigned an IP from pfsense instead. You don't need to put it in any VLAN, as that is only complicating things when testing... But if you want to, it's just a matter of entering the VLAN tag in the field for the VM's interface instead.

But still, the fact that it shows the link is not UP at the interface level, makes me wonder...

georgelza

@Gblenn I figured i'd give the host a ip on the network the card lives.
i will then give the guest vm's their own ip's on that network also.

can easily remove that 30.11

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stephenw10

The status of the bridge device is not really important compared to that of the actual NIC. The bridge could appear up even if the NIC is not.

I would check the NIC stats and see if you see any incoming packets on it. ip -s link show enp4s0f0

Gblenn

@georgelza said in pfSense not enabling port:

@Gblenn I figured i'd give the host a ip on the network the card lives.
i will then give the guest vm's their own ip's on that network also.

can easily remove that 30.11

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Leave all that to pfsense instead, that's where you want to control all those things, including all your static IP's. If you have set up the Unifi SFP+ port as VLAN 30 Untagged, then anything on the Proxmox side will of course get an IP from that range.

georgelza

@stephenw10

root@pmox1:~# ip -s link show enp4s0f0
6: enp4s0f0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master vmbr30 state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether a8:b8:e0:05:f0:91 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    RX:  bytes packets errors dropped  missed   mcast           
        236040    3934    282       0       0    3934 
    TX:  bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns           
      11447434   67461      0       0       0       0 
root@pmox1:~#

Gblenn

@stephenw10 It's already in the info pasted above, showing NO-CARRIER and DOWN so it doesn't seem to be working unfortunately...

georgelza

@Gblenn

I normally do dhcp reserve assignment on pfSense for all devices... aka control/manage i from that side.

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stephenw10

Ah, yes. try: ethtool enp4s0f0

georgelza

@stephenw10 said in pfSense not enabling port:

ethtool enp4s0f0

root@pmox1:~#  ethtool enp4s0f0
Settings for enp4s0f0:
        Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
        Supported link modes:   10000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: Symmetric
        Supports auto-negotiation: No
        Supported FEC modes: Not reported
        Advertised link modes:  10000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No
        Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
        Speed: 10000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Auto-negotiation: off
        Port: FIBRE
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Supports Wake-on: d
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
                               drv probe link
        Link detected: yes
root@pmox1:~#

Gblenn

@georgelza Yes, so no need to set the IP, it's one of the things that made me think it was working when I saw it...

So when you ping from Proxmox, I guess in this case you were pinging inside the virtual switch of Proxmox and got that ICMP response. Meaning it never left Promxox...

And when you then ping from the PC, you can see that it times out. The response from 172.16.30.1 comes from pfsense obviously.

georgelza

and from the logs

Oct 31 16:46:17 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Down
Oct 31 16:46:17 pmox1 kernel: vmbr30: port 1(enp4s0f0) entered disabled state
Oct 31 16:46:17 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX
Oct 31 16:46:17 pmox1 kernel: vmbr30: port 1(enp4s0f0) entered blocking state
Oct 31 16:46:17 pmox1 kernel: vmbr30: port 1(enp4s0f0) entered forwarding state
Oct 31 16:46:18 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Down
Oct 31 16:46:18 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX
Oct 31 16:46:18 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Down
Oct 31 16:46:18 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX

Gblenn

@georgelza So it looks like there is something happening at least. But it states auto-negotiation : no.

So what if you set the Unifi side to 10G and not Autonegotiate?

georgelza

have to pop out for hour, daddy duties. bbl.

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georgelza

@Gblenn let me try.
it was set to 10 GBS FDX.

switched it to Auto, still same.

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stephenw10

It has to be auto at both ends to use that. Otherwise it should link at 10G fixed on both ends.

Probably need to query the module to make sure it at least sees signal on the fiber. I don't have anything to test that with but maybe: ethtool --show-module enp4s0f0

stephenw10

Just to confirm this is Proxmox installed on the same Topton hardware that pfSense couldn't get link on?

Gblenn

@stephenw10 said in pfSense not enabling port:

Just to confirm this is Proxmox installed on the same Topton hardware that pfSense couldn't get link on?

No it's a separate machine, thinking it should work in Proxmox at least...

It has to be auto at both ends to use that. Otherwise it should link at 10G fixed on both ends.

Probably need to query the module to make sure it at least sees signal on the fiber. I don't have anything to test that >with but maybe: ethtool --show-module enp4s0f0

It did list this at the end as per the post further up:

    Link detected: yes

And Proxmox log was showing interface going up and down...

Oct 31 16:46:17 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Down
Oct 31 16:46:17 pmox1 kernel: vmbr30: port 1(enp4s0f0) entered disabled state
Oct 31 16:46:17 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX
Oct 31 16:46:17 pmox1 kernel: vmbr30: port 1(enp4s0f0) entered blocking state
Oct 31 16:46:17 pmox1 kernel: vmbr30: port 1(enp4s0f0) entered forwarding state
Oct 31 16:46:18 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Down
Oct 31 16:46:18 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX
Oct 31 16:46:18 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Down
Oct 31 16:46:18 pmox1 kernel: ixgbe 0000:04:00.0 enp4s0f0: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps, Flow Control: RX/TX

Perhaps time to try a different module, or set of modules / fiber...

georgelza

@Gblenn

I've already swopped the fiber out.

And tried the pfSense which was 2 modules there... and that fiber. then ran into issues and thought if we think this is pfSense not liking it lets me jst confirm things work, in a more compatible environment, so installed transceivers into my 2nd Topton that runs pmox. patched that into my Unifi Pro Max port 26 which SFP+ (SFP1), port 25 is (SFP0).

and ye. we not getting much further.

My unifi switch is reporting the correct SFP+ transceivers so can't image there being a problem with them, and well, they brand brand new.

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stephenw10

Ok but it's the same model Topton device? Same NIC?

Yeah, seeing the NIC logged as changing link state like that sure looks like it should be working....