Well, I have seemed to have fixed it, but the solution makes no sense to me. Perhaps it will make more sense to those of you with more networking knowledge than I.
All of the cables leaving the PfSense box went to switches. The one hooked up to the LAN had the cable plug into a regular port on the LAN switch, all the others were plugged into the "uplink" port on those switches. So, when I moved all of the cables from the "uplink" port on the switches, to a regular port on those switches, all of a sudden things worked just fine. Why? I thought the purpose of the uplink was to connect to a higher "switch" (in this case, the PfSense box a.k.a router). The former router (a commercial speedstream that the pfsense box replaces) worked just fine with all the switches hooked up with the uplink port. Heck, even my pfsense box at home worked just fine with my linksys switch using the uplink port. what is with this ambiguity?! Anyways, thanks to you all for help. I'm sorry if I may have caused any problems. If anybody knows why what I did works (why the uplink port seems to be a curse/miracle) please explain, I would love to know. And besides, if somebody ever has the same problem, and they search the mailing lists, they'll find the answer. Thanks again! Anthony -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Bill Marquette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So let me get this straight. > > The cable that's plugged into the LAN nic if unplugged from LAN and > plugged into each of the OPT nics works? Sounds like a switch or > cable issue. Have you tried the reverse? Plug the cables that are in > the non-working OPT interfaces into the known working interface (LAN)? > And for that matter, plugging the known working cable and the known > working interface into the switch ports that you are trying to plug > the OPT interfaces in? > > --Bill > > On 3/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > nope, doesn't fix it. Just upgraded. Still as broke as it was an hour ago. > > The system is a Dell Optiplex (I can't find the model number at this time) > > It > has a Pentium 3 and a 10 GB harddrive, if that helps at all. > > > > > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > > From: "Scott Ullrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 3/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > I'm using Beta 1 right now, because I don't think that upgrading to > > > > Beta2 > > > would > > > > fix this. > > > > > > Upgrade. There was only 91+ fixes between beta1 and beta2 and > > > countless FreeBSD fixes. > > > > > > Scott > > > >
