Dual NIC Port Collision
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Hi,
Before this problem happened I have smooth running pfsense. Every Subnet has dedicated port.
Pfsense v2.3
Amd64
3x Intel Pro/1000 MT Dual Port
NIC 1 ( Port 1-2) WAN1 and WAN2
NIC 2 ( Port 3-4) LAN1 and LAN2
NIC 3 ( Port 5-6) LAN3 and LAN4Now the time comes that I need to add another subnet.
So I created a 3 vlan on port 5, activated the first vlan, then apply the configuration.
after that the port 5 and 6 have an error and collision.
I restarted the machine the error still happen after a few minutes
but when I unplug one of them (5 or 6) everything is working fine no error and collision.The rest of the port ( 1-4 ) have no problem.
Solutions tried:
Removed vlans created
Unassigned the interface 5
Power off the machine
Upgrade to v2.3.2the problem still exist.
Right now I unplugged the port 5 temporarily.
Hope you can help me guys why its happening.
Thanks.
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What are your subnets? Sounds like you may possibly have overlapping subnsets.
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They are on different subnets.
Even the other port was unassigned, the problem still exist.I also reinstalled the pfsense still the same problem.
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What is the actual error message and symptoms that showed a "collision" on ports 5&6?
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Here is the error
em6: Watchdog timeout – resetting
em6: Hardware Initialization failed
em6: Unable to Initialize the hardwareem6 = port 6
after that, bunch of errors and collisions appear in Interface Status.