Adapter transition - OLD to NEW.
-
I have a pfsense box. It has an x16 quad nice card that has worked flawlessly for at least 5 years.
We are potentially upgrading to a leased line so I need to free up the x16 for an SFP card.
I have a duplicate system for disaster recovery purposes and so have some scope to play a little.
There are several free x1 slots available I therefore bought one of these for a test rig.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01HH6WETO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The problem I am having is the card is installed / recognised and I can add new networks on the adapters.
What I would like to do move the interfaces from the x16 card over to the new card. For instance I tried moving igb1 (Original x16 LAN) over to the new card re01 adapter. The command line appears to show the adapter address correct for LAN. It is at this point when using the newly assigned re01 adapter I cannot reach the admin. DHCP seems to provide an address but no joy on reaching the admin. I have tried flushing the laptop adapter. Manually assigning the IP address on the laptop (Laptop being what I'm suing to reach the admin).
Any ideas would be appreciated thanks. I really do not wish to tear down the interface and create another from scratch. It would be great to swap the OLD > NEW interfaces and retain rulesets. Having done this I can then remove the OLD adapter and test for a fibre SFP type.
There could well be a gotcha I'm missing here if so enlightenment would be great thanks.
Regards
Z
----- Box Spec
BIOS Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: 3807
Release Date: Wed Jun 20 2018
Version 2.5.0-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Tue Feb 16 08:56:29 EST 2021
FreeBSD 12.2-STABLEThe system is on the latest version.
Version information updated at Thu Mar 25 8:46:07 GMT 2021
CPU Type Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G4400 @ 3.30GHz
2 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s)
AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (inactive)
Kernel PTI Enabled
MDS Mitigation Inactive
Uptime 21 Days 01 Hour 46 Minutes 14 Seconds
Current date/time
Thu Mar 25 9:43:59 GMT 2021
DNS server(s)
xxx
Last config change Mon Mar 22 15:19:48 GMT 2021
State table size
0% (1389/800000) Show states
MBUF Usage
1% (8470/1000000)
Temperature
24.0°C
Load average
0.11, 0.10, 0.08
CPU usage
1%
Memory usage
4% of 8003 MiB
SWAP usage
0% of 1526 MiB
Disk usage:
/
5% of 27GiB - ufs
/var/run
3% of 3.4MiB - ufs in RAM -
@zoqask Just replying to myself having thought a little more about this. I suppose the hacky method would be remove the old card. Factory reset the box then restore the config and re-assign the new adapters to the appropriate rulesets.
If there is a more logical way then by all means make the suggestion thanks.
