Netgate 7100-1U New NIC setup issues
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As you posted above:
WAN > ix0
LAN > ix3 (port labelled ix1)But since ix2/3 are part of lagg0 by default you may be unable to assign ix3 until the lagg is re-assigned to ix4/5 or removed.
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@stephenw10 is there a way to do it from console ?
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Yes you can assign interfaces from the console. Use menu option 1.
Doing so will remove the old assignment so you will have no lagg configured after that. You would have to add it again afterwards in the gui if you wanted to use the Eth ports later.
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@stephenw10 how should my new assignments look like ?
Wan -ix0
Lan-ix3
Opt1-?
Opt2-?
Opt3-?
Opt4-?
Opt5-?
To witch of the above would i assign these :
Ix1;ix2,ix4,;ix5 ;lagg0.4090;lagg0.4091
Also i dont need vlans or do i have to setup vlans to do what i need done ? -
You don't need to assign anything more than WAN and LAN. You can then access the webgui and assign other interfaces if you need to.
What interfaces do need to end up with though?
You will need to use VLANs and a lagg on ix4/5 to access the switch ports for example.
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@stephenw10 hello;-) thats what i did
Wan -ixo which i got ip from modem
Lan -ix3 setup dhcp and gateway ipAfter that i cant connect to webgui or to network through switch or router -
Do i need to setup dhcp on switch ?
All i need is the sfp+ port and new nic card ethernet as wan
And when setting up dhcp and gateway ip After
When it gives me iption wan uostream ipv4 gateway i skip as its for wan ,right ? I wonder what else am i missing as i cant connect -
You are talking about an external switch connected to ix3 I assume?
There shouldn't be anything special required there, I would expect it to 'just work'.
Are you sure the switch is connected to ix3? Do you see link LEDs?
Run at the command line:
ifconfig ix3
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@stephenw10 its very weird as my devices connected to switch detecting dhcp from router but cant connect neans the ix3 is passing data to switch and is connected
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@Sammy2Netgo would the issue be related to switch set to l3 instead L2 im sure dhcp doesnt need to be running on the switch just the router as far as i know
Or would it be related to the port on the switch set to access port vs trunk port ?
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@Sammy2Netgo i was thinking about reverse engineering and setting dhcp on the switch and get the router to obtain ip from switch
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Just to confirm you are referring to some external switch connected to the on-board SFP port on the 7100 here?
Not the on-board switch in the 7100? Which is L2 only.
If your switch is set to layer 3 then it may be relaying the DHCP requests between two subnets but would not necessarily route traffic unless configured to do that.
Clients connected to the pfSense LAN expect to be in the same layer 2 segment. So, yes, having the switch setup as L3 could be causing this.
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@stephenw10 yes its an external switch hooked up to sfp + port 10
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@Sammy2Netgo what do i do in this section for lan ip setup ?
For a WAN, enter the new LAN ipv4 upstream gateway address. For a LAN, press enter > for none:
I leave blank ,right ? As its for a lan or does this have to do with me not connecting online through my dhcp -
Yes just leave it empty, only WAN type interfaces should have a gateway set.
DHCP will pass the LAN address to clients to use as their gateway. Check the default route on the client.
Make sure the LAN subnet doesn't conflict with the whatever the WAN is receiving.
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@stephenw10 omg my head feels like a pumpkin ready to explode -So the clients that are hooked to the switch are showing receiving dhcp lease from router but when i do ping to client it says no network or connection.Last night i tried to reverse the process and make my switch hand out dhcp leases and the router did receive the lease so there is some communication between router and switch but still no connectivity
I find the ports are out of whack as i factory reset router and the lan port 1 should be the wan but thats not the case -My other option idea would be to take the new card out of the router then setup the router and then put the new card in ?Not sure if that would help-What do you guys think maybe the assignments of the ports needed is gone or missing on the back end , thats why the no connection issues ?
Or maybe through console boot sector do new install of pfsense ?
One funny thing i noticed is in console it shows the sfp i wanna use as lan to external switch is ix3 so when i did that i only see rx not tx but when i put ix1 as LAN switch showing rx & tx connectivity.Originally on the front face panel it does show the sfp port labeled ix1.Any ideas ? -
@stephenw10 both my modem router from isp and netgate router are set with 24 /cidr
255.255.255.0 subnet /how would it interfere ?
Currently my netgate router is set on lan side of the isp modem router -
@Sammy2Netgo said in Netgate 7100-1U New NIC setup issues:
One funny thing i noticed is in console it shows the sfp i wanna use as lan to external switch is ix3 so when i did that i only see rx not tx but when i put ix1 as LAN switch showing rx & tx connectivity.Originally on the front face panel it does show the sfp port labeled ix1.Any ideas ?
When you put the expansion card in the ports on that card become ix0 and ix1.
If you are connecting to the on-board SFP+ port labelled
ix1that will no be ix3 so that's what you should use as LAN.However, as I said, you can confirm that by running at the command line:
ifconfig -vm ix3
You should see the link as up and the correct SFP module data reported.If you disconnnect it and re-run that command you can confirm the NIC then goes down.
If you see that then the issue is probably in the switch config.
The subnet size (mask) doesn't matter as long as the two subnets do not conflict. So by default pfSense uses 192.168.1.1/24 for the LAN. The WAN must be in some other subnet.
What do you actually see reported at the console? Can you copy/paste it here?
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@stephenw10 im currently out of office but will let you know as soon as i get back / Thanx
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@stephenw10 how would i start command line
Is it selecting 8 shell ?
Here is my new port settings in console :
Wan >ix0
Lan >ix3
Opt1>lagg0.4090
Opt2>ix1I finally see mac address of router showing in my switch but still no connection devices hooked to switch not connecting -Devices show dhcp lease ip
But not connecting or saying cant get an ip address is it maybe some setting in switch i need to configure ? -
Yes use option 8 from the console menu to reach the command line.
Then run:
ifconfig -vm ix3Make sure it shows as up and linked.
Unplug the SFP and run that again. Make sure it now shows as down to confirm that's actually the LAN NIC.
Be sure the addresses shown above the menu for WAN and LAN do not conflict.
For example:
Netgate 7100 - Netgate Device ID: ba27a9eaeaeaea439bacb *** Welcome to Netgate pfSense Plus 24.08-DEVELOPMENT (amd64) on 7100 *** Current Boot Environment: default_20240624180133_20240903152424 Next Boot Environment: default_20240624180133_20240903152424 LAN (lan) -> ix2 -> v4: 192.168.88.1/24 OPT1 (opt1) -> ix0 -> WAN (wan) -> lagg0 -> v4/DHCP4: 172.21.16.30/24
