Duplex readout?
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Hi there maybe I am overlooking something, because I cannot find the full/half duplex readout on the WAN(pgb0) interface (PPPoE) in the GUI? In the dashboard in the interfaces there isn't one and in Status/Interfaces Media it is also missing. BTW If I use the CLI "ifconfig pgb0" it's neatly listed that it's full duplex ;) ?
btw the WAN is a PPPoE connection, thats connected to a modem which is a PPPoA/PPPoE bridge!
Cheers Qinn
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So which one is the configured WAN interface on pfSense, normal ethernet or PPPoE? If it's PPPoE what you're seeing is normal because a PPPoE interface is a virtual one and can't have duplex settings, the parent ethernet interface does of course have the usual duplex and other settings that control the real hardware.
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There is no duplex for PPPoE.
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@Both thanks for pointing that one out to me. Although it seems logical, then there is no easy way to tell (in the GUI) when your NIC is broken (full => half duplex). Well it happened to me once and at that time I was using M0n0wall and it showed me the duplex state.
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You can assign the underlying physical interface to something unusedf if you want that on the widget. (Frequently reused for modem access - https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Accessing_modem_from_inside_firewall)
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Grazie mille I will try that!
