Crashing

DaddyGo

All right,
yes not everything can be updated, but the essential parts is done
have you just done a fresh installation from pfSense 2.4.5 and the automatic hardware detection add igb(4) to your Intel NIC?

this may be interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/alpt9j/freebsd_112_to_120_upgrade_igb_moved_to_em/

ELMcDonald

@DaddyGo

yes fresh load

DaddyGo

there are problems with the auto-selection for igb (4) driver?
do you experience the problem outlined in your first post?

the igb(4) driver kit almost always works perfectly

ELMcDonald

@DaddyGo I don't know if it the card or the driver as it is still crashing , as I have stated above. Want to try a different driver, as I can not get another card right now.

DaddyGo

it's harder to persuade pfSense not to use the automatically selected driver, since this will involve editing /boot/loader.conf.local file

edit: (you can load a driver module at boot (/boot/loader.conf.local) and it will override the in kernel auto - driver select.. It's obviously not recommended, but it is not impossible)

I would first do it to filter out any hardware failure so:

-remove the Intel card as I know exactly that (bce) Broadcom LOM works perfectly in the pfSense + Dell R210II configuration (as I mentioned in my configurations there are Broadcom ethernet controllers)

then we will know if Intel NIC alone or Intel NIC + Dell PCI bus compatibility is causing your issue

edit: as each operates separately on its own

ELMcDonald

@DaddyGo

Running fine on the built-in nic's.

DaddyGo

perfect

You see, it's already clear what's wrong...

You can do two things:

you experiment, but it can cost useless money, if it doesn't work and you buy one this (the compatibility of the I350 is legendary):
https://www.dell.com/en-au/work/shop/dell-intel-ethernet-i350-t-quad-port-1-gigabit-server-adapter-low-profile/apd/540-11333/networking

or

https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/intel-i350-t4-quad-port-rj45-1gbps-low-profile-pcie-x4-nic

-or you go that way, which I have already experienced and you use a Broadcom T4 NIC (bce4), I know for sure it works:

https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/broadcom-bcm5709-quad-port-rj45-1gbps-low-profile-pcie-x4-nic
(we use it without any problems)

I'm sure with such a strong CPU, the (bce4) driver has no disadvantages when running pfSense