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    Fwe - ethernet over firewire not working

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      sai
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      I have 2 pfSense machines connected by their fwe0 ports - I was hoping to use the fwe ports for CARP.
      Unfortunately they do not ping each other.

      When I do an ifconfig I see this:
      rl0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>mtu 1500
              options=8 <vlan_mtu>inet 10.10.10.150 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
              inet6 fe80::230:18ff:fea2:b806%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
              ether 00:30:18:a2:b8:06
              media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
              status: active
      fwe0: flags=108943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast,needsgiant>mtu 1500
              options=8 <vlan_mtu>inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
              inet6 fe80::30:18ff:fea0:33f4%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
              ether 02:30:18:a0:33:f4
              ch 1 dma 0

      What does the PROMISC, NEEDSGIANT and dma 0 mean? Anyone have any idea why I can't ping one fwe from another fwe?

      I have set up rules to allow the pings in the fwe interface….not sure of the firewire cable though , have nothing else to test it with.

      sai</vlan_mtu></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast,needsgiant></full-duplex></vlan_mtu></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

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        sullrich
        last edited by

        Ethernet over firewire was removed early on.  It was not working correctly to begin with.

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          sai
          last edited by

          removed from FreeBSD  or removed from pfSense?

          Any hope of this coming back?

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            sullrich
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            If it works down the road it will be added back.

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