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      Willem
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      I am getting no carrier on the WAN, right after plugging in WAN it loses connection. I have tried to change config.xml like;

      <media>100 base TX
      <mediaopt>full duplex</mediaopt>

      Looking at ifconfig its says autoselect none</media>

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        sullrich
        last edited by

        Try a crossover cable.

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          rds_correia
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          @sullrich:

          Try a crossover cable.

          ;D

          pfSense 2.2.4 running on a HP DL385 G5
          WAN bce(4) + LAN em(4) + OPTn em(4) with 10 VLANs + Snort + PPTP VPN soon to be trashed by OVPN

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            hoba
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            @Willem:

            I am getting no carrier on the WAN, right after plugging in WAN it loses connection. I have tried to change config.xml like;

            <media>100 base TX
            <mediaopt>full duplex</mediaopt>

            Looking at ifconfig its says autoselect none</media>

            I doubt that these options are correct. Did you run ifconfig -m to see the valid options for your NIC?
            For example, a sis interface on a wrap shows these options:

            
            sis0: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500
            	options=8 <vlan_mtu>capabilities=48 <vlan_mtu,polling>inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
            	inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe01:2c8%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
            	ether 00:0d:b9:01:02:c8
            	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
            	status: no carrier
            	supported media:
            		media autoselect
            		media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
            		media 100baseTX
            		media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
            		media 10baseT/UTP</vlan_mtu,polling></vlan_mtu></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast> 
            

            You have to enter the options in exactly the same way they are output here, without spaces.

            But first do what Scott recommended, use a crossovercable and see if that makes a difference. Hardcoding settings usually causes just problems if not both sides are hardcoded.

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