I just set up a PfSense firewall for a company, and I seem to be having problems with the OPTx interfaces. There are 4 of them, three of which are connected to cables which are connected to switches (the fourth OPT i/f is currently unused).
The interfaces are all set up in the webGUI (non conflicting IP addresses and all that. Ex: lan = 10.1.1.0/24, OPTx = 10.1.x.0/24, and so on), but the NICs show no sign of connection, and this is verified by the interfaces page which says "no carrier" under the status part for all the OPTx interfaces. The lights on the cards don't even blink, even though they are all using straight-through cables connected to switches, to which the computers connect. But here's the strange part: when I unplug the cable hooked up to the LAN interface and plug it into any of the other NICs on the PfSense box, that NIC all of a sudden lights up and becomes active (from all visible means on the box, I can't really check the webGUI at that point anymore). When I unplug the LAN cable and plug back in the cable that's supposed to be connected to that interface, the lights go out again. I'm using Beta 1 right now, because I don't think that upgrading to Beta2 would fix this. Please, this is a very urgent matter and any responses that I can get ASAP are extremely appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. Anthony
