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      martin085
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      Hi all,
      I am playing around with a second USB LAN interface.

      I have

      WAN
      LAN (ue0)
      VPN

      If I delete the second (ue1) interface, remove it and reboot, the interface reassignment mode ALWAYS comes up, even though it was working fine pre-reboot as above.

      If i plug back in the USB adapter even though there is no interface assigned it boots successfully and previous interfaces are correct.

      So if I want a stable working system I cannot remove this not-in-use USB adapter.

      It seems really dumb behavior. It may be something to do with how USB is recognized, any ideas?

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        Gertjan @martin085
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        @martin085 said in Stop interface reassignment on reboot:

        It seems really dumb behavior

        Correct. Using USB NIC's can be described as such ;)

        Hardware interfaces HAVE to be present at boot so the system can apply known firewall rules and other settings on it. See it as security related. Like : I find a firewall, slide in my USB NIC into one of the port, and gain access to the system ...

        Software based interfaces are somewhat different - they can be created on the fly after booting up (like OpenVPN interfaces).

        I recall you can add to this file : /boot /loader.conf.local some instructions to have your USB NIC activated even when it is not there during boot. Use the forum-search function to find them.

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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