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    Any one knows "fwe0"

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      extacy1 last edited by

      Hi All,
      Anyone knows how to make "fwe0" interface work ?

      It is just showing, "up" on web interface, even though nothing is plugged to interface.This is built-in interface, I can't make it work,I changed to computer tried another computer, but that built-in interface is not working. NO dhcp, nothing

      I checked archive, i could not find anything

      Any helps, ideas more than welcome.

      I appreciate in advance.

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        cmb last edited by

        fwe0 is Ethernet over Firewire. Not sure if you were expecting that to be a NIC, it's not an Ethernet card. I'm not sure we have the proper accommodations for that to work.

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          extacy1 last edited by

          Well, it was working in Windows XP, that is why I thought that it is an interface, but in BSD, no luck I guess

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          • stephenw10
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator last edited by

            I suspect that it would work if you had FreeBSD boxes at both ends of your firewire:
            @fwe(4):

            BUGS
                This driver emulates Ethernet in a very adhoc way and it does not reserve
                a stream channel using an isochronous manager.  Note that this driver
                uses a protocol which is very different from RFC 2734 (IPv4 over IEEE
                1394).

            Steve

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              cmb last edited by

              I don't think that's what he was expecting though, seems he thought it was an onboard Ethernet NIC, which apparently isn't supported by FreeBSD.

              extacy1: you may have better luck with that NIC with our 2.1 snapshots since they have a newer FreeBSD base and hence more driver support. http://snapshots.pfsense.org

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                extacy1 last edited by

                I just figured it out.
                This is actually multi-functional ethernet adapter.It could have firewire over ethernet, usb bus over ethernet or regular ethernet adapter.
                On Pfsense web interface, from the INTERFACES menu> Assign Interfaces >Interface Assigment > change this option from "fwe0" to  "em" ( it could be em2 or em3 depending your interface number, this is usually the last interface)
                and restart. You are all set.
                Thanks everyone for their ideas.

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