Problem on reboot with loading nics

Boxson

Hi all,

i'm barely new to pfSense. I'm running a test system with an onboard Realtek Ethernet adapter and an additional USB3 ethernet adapter. Both work with pfSense.

BUT if the system needs to be rebootet, the USB3 nic seems to load to slow. Then pfSense sees only one nic and starts again asking for "Do you want to configure VLANs" and routes me through the nic identification questions.

Is there a way to slow the boot process down a littlet bit ?

Regards

Jens

Grimson

@boxson said in Problem on reboot with loading nics:

I'm running a test system with an onboard Realtek Ethernet adapter and an additional USB3 ethernet adapter.

You're quite the masochist then, using the two worst choices for interfaces.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2017-February/086825.html use loader.conf.local instead of loader.conf on pfSense and next time google yourself.

Boxson

@grimson

Thanks for the answer. I've googled and tried that before (adding the kern.cam.boot_delay="10000" to the loader.conf.local), but this seems to be ignored? There is no noticeable wait time during boot.

I'm on the latest version of pfSense

Gertjan

dmesg reveals something ?

Boxson

found a solution which seems to work reliable. As the ethernet USB adapter is on USB3 it seems to need more time during boot to be available to pfsense. I've installed the ShellCmd Package and added a earlyshellcmd with sleep 25
code.

After loading the configuration pfesense waits for 25 second to have the usb network adapter initialised and the continiues with boot up.

After several reboot this seems to fix the problem.