Errors In on Lan
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Hello
I am having errors com in on one of my Lan Ports.
I have Pfsense with 3 Ports, one for Wan and two for Lan so Lan1 and Lan2.
On each on the Lans I have a Netgear D6200 router for WiFi, the routers are the same. I have had this set up for over a year with no issues.
Recently I was given a mikrotik hap ac lite to play with. I replaced one of the Netgear router with it for about a week then switched back. Ever since the switch back there has been thousands of in errors on the Lan2 that I tried the mikrotik on. Also a dramatic speed drop on the same Lan. Lan1 is fine.
If I plug the mikrotik back in the problem goes away, the mikrotik has 100mb ports where the Netgear has 1000mb.
I have reset the Netgear, rolled back Pfsense to a state before I tried the mikrotik, changes cables and tried another router but still have the same issue unless the mikrotik is plugged in.
I have check that duplex on that Lan is set to Auto.
Does anyone have any suggestions before I reinstal Pfsense? Could it be the network card?
Or could the mikrotik triggered a fault?Thanks in advance
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If it's done something odd to the NIC I would first try powercycling the box entirely (actually remove the power cable for 30s) if you have not already.
I note that device is also PoE capable and looks like it's maybe not true 802at? Was it coinfigured for that and toasted the NIC somehow?Steve
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@stephenw10 thanks for the reply, I have rebooted but not disconnected the power supply so will try that.
Yes the mikrotik has POE on one port but I didn't use that port.
I will try the power cycle and see what happens.
Could one of the ports get fried and not the other one on a card? -
Yes, that's entirely possible.
Try re-assigning two interfaces, swap ports. Do the errors follow the AP or stay on the port?
Steve
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@stephenw10 I have re-assigned the interfaces and swapped ports and AP's only the issue on the one nic so that seems to be the fault. Must of failed somehow.
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@rybena, I think your nic become lazy ;) Do you have any network switch with an uplink function?
If so try this, turn on uplink function on your switch, use a shorter lan cable. Connect this cable to the lazy nic, then go to Interfaces > Lan (lazy nic) > Unchecked Enable interface > save > then re-enable lan interface > save > apply changes. -
@AKEGEC Thanks for the suggestion. I tried a managed switch but still saw the same issues. I think I must of somehow run the poe into the Pfsense box.
