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    Inactive interfaces until lan ping

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      zenobito
      last edited by

      Hello,
      I'm new to PFSense; I just installed 1.2.3 version.
      So far it's all ok (I'm impressed!), but I noticed that it seems interfaces are not active until I do a ping from the console to a lan address.
      After this ping, suddenly all the interfaces (so far I have 1 lan 2 wan and 1 opt) start to work.
      Is it a configuration mistake or a known problem?
      Thank you.

      zenobito

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        That is not normal, but it isn't a common problem either. I'm not sure I've heard of that happening before.

        Can you provide more information about your setup? (hardware/network cards being used, firewall rules, etc)

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          danswartz
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          weird for sure that pinging a host on one interface "fixes" all of them :(  that said, i have seen situations where due to some switch issues, the switch would not forward traffic to a port until it added that mac address to its learning table, which would happen if you pinged an IP, which would cause an ARP to be sent (a broadcast packet).

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