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      obstreperousness
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      Hi. pfSense is great!

      With that out of the way, I'd like to ask what the asterisks (*) beside the interface names on the pfSense console mean. I assume they're intended to indicate that an interface is UP. If that's so, then it appears the reporting is inconsistent, at least when VLAN interfaces are concerned. Here's what mine looks like:

      
      *** Welcome to pfSense 1.2-RELEASE-embedded on sentry ***
      
        WAN*                -> em0	->	20x.1xx.xx0.194
        LAN*               -> em1	->	192.168.1.1
        OPT1(client1)*      -> xl0	->	20x.1xx.20x.50
        OPT2(client2)*      -> em2	->	10.200.0.1
        OPT3(client3)*      -> vlan0	->	20x.xx.10.1
        OPT4(client4)*      -> vlan1	->	20x.xx.1x2.1
        OPT5(client5)*      -> vlan2	->	20x.50.1x3.49
        OPT6(client6)*      -> vlan3	->	20x.50.1x3.81
        OPT7(client7)*      -> vlan4	->	20x.x0.1x3.93
        OPT8(client8)*      -> vlan5	->	20x.x0.1x3.225
        OPT9(client9)*      -> vlan6	->	20x.x0.1x3.241
        OPT10(client10)*   -> vlan7	->	192.168.0.1
        OPT11(client11)*   -> vlan8	->	20x.x0.1x3.253
        OPT12(client12)*   -> vlan9	->	20x.x0.1x4.97
        OPT13(client13)    -> vlan10	->	20x.x0.1x5.193
        OPT14(client14)    -> vlan11	->	20x.x0.1x5.201
        OPT15(client15)    -> vlan12	->	20x.x0.1x5.209
        OPT16(client16)    -> vlan13	->	10.0.0.1
      
      

      OPT13 - OPT16 above should be reporting UP because they're connected and active. vlan2 - vlan13 are all children of physical interface em3. They're trunked to a Cisco switch. ifconfig reports them all active. Is this a cosmetic bug?

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        obstreperousness
        last edited by

        The question outstanding here is: is this a known bug? Should I submit a bug report?

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