It was all working before and now its all messed up? Ah, that be the Networking Gremlins. :-)
When this sort of thing happens I usually have to restart from the begining - probably missed a small but vital bit of config. Maybe even reinstall. sai On 9/14/07, Shane B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a weird problem where my SYNC (OPT1) interface is showing no > carrier, and the lights on the NIC are off (though each side of the SYNC > link will blink every couple of seconds, and they are in fact connected with > a working crossover cable. > > Background info: My setup is pretty much exactly what they show in the CARP > tutorial: > http://pfsense.untouchable.net/tutorials/carp/carp-cluster-new.htm > I have two 4 NIC interfaces on each of 2 firewall boxes, with a public WAN > switch, and a private LAN switch. And my IPs are pretty similar to the > tutorial (and triple-checked for accuracy), not that I think it matters > because this seems to be a layer 1 or 2 problem. > > I did have the setup up and working the night before, but shut it down and > started it up then changed the IPs on each interface to work on my network > better. After this interface change (and all other areas that needed to be > changed (IE: virtual IPs and CARP settings), my SYNC interface seems to not > be seeing a connection. The odd thing about it is firewall1 is showing both > MASTER on the carp status page, and firewall2 is showing both BACKUP > accurately. Though when I try to update a rule I get a "[sync settings]A > communications error occurred while attempting a XML RPC with..." error. > > Not to mention the lights are not going up for the link between the > interfaces, though it's on a PCI NIC with dual adapters (in port 0) and if I > move either one of the ends of the crossover cable into port 1 instead of > port0 the link connection lights go on, so it's not the cable, it seems as > though pfsense is blocking the interfaces, though why? And how can I get it > to stop blocking the interface? > > Any help would be appreciated! This has been confusing me for a couple days > now. > > Thanks! > > Shane > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
