Third "physical" vmxnet3 NIC won't show up in ifconfig nor in Web GUI

[ehsdala]

I started with 2 vmxnet3 NICs, one for WAN and the other for LAN and then I set up an OpenVPN on a third vNIC. Then I decided I wanted to add another LAN on the inside so I added a third vmxnet3 NIC but it doesn't show up.

Could anybody shed some light on the correct process to fix this?

[jimp]

Did you reboot after adding the NIC? You can't add NICs "live" to pfSense (or even FreeBSD IIRC)

[kiokoman]

on my esxi 6.7u3 i need to turn off pfsense, add the new interface and start pfsense,
i have 3 vmxnet3 interface (vmx0,vmx1,vmx2)

[ehsdala]

Thank you both very much!
I added the NIC and then rebooted the first time. Now I've followed your advice which worked like a charm.