pfSense lost network card

[Hien Do]

I have a pfsense firewall run on vmware esx 6.5. I have tried to add a new network interface when pfsense is running. I alert that 'vmx4 detached' and reboot the firewall. After rebooting, I can not see vmx4 in both web GUI anf CLI of pfsense.

What problem happended and how can I get vmx4?

[stephenw10]

Really you should not add hardware whist the instance is running like that. But I would expect it to show all presented NICs after the reboot.

I assume you already had vmx0-3 interfaces?

Check the boot log for errors attaching to the virtual NIC.

Try running pciconf -lv at the command line and make sure all 5 NICs are shown.

Steve

[heper]

no clue why it isnt showing up, but be careful for the order mess you'll get into when adding vmx4
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/132933/vmx-nic-ordering-for-pfsense-on-vsphere-5-5