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English Forums => 25.7, 25.10 Series => Topic started by: ilumos on October 08, 2025, 09:01:48 PM

Title: PPPoE fails on em1, works on em2
Post by: ilumos on October 08, 2025, 09:01:48 PM
Hi there,

I was running 24.7, with:

Today I upgraded to 25.7 and the PPPoE connection did not come up, with logs showing "ppp [wan_link0] PPPoE connection timeout after 9 seconds".

After failing to resolve the issue, I assumed my configuration and/or installation was corrupt, so I erased the storage, installed 25.7 fresh, assigned interfaces and configured PPPoE as above, performed no other configuration, and still get the same error logs and no PPPoE connection.

The only way I can get PPPoE to connect successfully is to change the parent interface of pppoe0 to em2. Even more strangely, setting the parent interface to em3 also prevenets the PPPoE conenction from being established.

I found another thread from someone experiencing the same issue:
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=39074.0

So strange - what is going on?

Thanks!