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    Noob Help - Dual NIC Configuration

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      mirage22
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      Hi,

      I am quite new to PFSense. We are a startup and to save some money, yet use a powerful firewall, i thought of going the PFSense way. We can't buy netgate boxes in our country, so it had to be a custom box.

      The motherboard is GA-H110M-S21 running a corei3 processor with 8gb of RAM. It has an onboard Realtek Ethernet port. In addition, I pulled a working Intel I350-t4 from another machine and put it in this box.

      Installing PFSense went smooth.

      But when I am trying to assign the interface, I have issues.

      If I assign WAN or Lan to Realtek it works. But unfortunately, that's just one port.

      If I assign WAN and/or Lan to Intel (which I can see, along with the 4 MAC Addresses), it doesn't work. This Intel board is genuine, was working on another box and has it's firmware updated. I can also see it in the interface options. But if I assign WAN, it doesn't connect to the internet. If I assign Lan, then no machine can get DHCP from it or ping it.

      I have PFSense 2.3.2 update 1 with me.

      Your advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

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        phil.davis
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        Someone else had a similar problem and updated their I350 to the latest flash - read and try:
        https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=86065.0

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          mirage22
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          @phil.davis:

          Someone else had a similar problem and updated their I350 to the latest flash - read and try:
          https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=86065.0

          Yes, I went through all those hoops, the fatal error 12 etc and have updated my Intel NIC to the latest F/W as mentioned in the original post.

          I can even see the NIC in the WebGUI or in the PFSense VGA terminal. But on assigning WAN or LAN to it, the device just doesn't work.

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