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I have a strange problem with my OPNsense instance that I've not been able to deliberately reproduce. I've also searched the internet (and this forum) for similar issues, but I wasn't able to find anything conclusive.
I have OPNsense installed on a Qotom box with 4 SFP+ ports. Two ports are in use and therefore assigned interfaces in OPNsense. The first port works flawlessly all the time. The second port not so much.
Occasionally upon reboot OPNsense seems to switch the assignment of the second SFP+ port to the third SFP+ port. Since half of my network is attached to this port this causes major problems, as you can imagine. The only (temporary) fix is to plug the network cable into the other plug until it switches back again.
Even though after much trial-and-error and research I haven't been able to even reproduce when exactly this happens. I've found posts of people having their assignments switched around, but all of these cases did deploy OPNsense as a VM guest and they changed network interfaces being passed-through to OPNsense right before they encountered these problems. As everything is soldered to one mainboard I don't even have the option of changing something related to the network hardware, so that definitely can't be the cause.
Do you have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?
I have OPNsense installed on a Qotom box with 4 SFP+ ports. Two ports are in use and therefore assigned interfaces in OPNsense. The first port works flawlessly all the time. The second port not so much.
Occasionally upon reboot OPNsense seems to switch the assignment of the second SFP+ port to the third SFP+ port. Since half of my network is attached to this port this causes major problems, as you can imagine. The only (temporary) fix is to plug the network cable into the other plug until it switches back again.
Even though after much trial-and-error and research I haven't been able to even reproduce when exactly this happens. I've found posts of people having their assignments switched around, but all of these cases did deploy OPNsense as a VM guest and they changed network interfaces being passed-through to OPNsense right before they encountered these problems. As everything is soldered to one mainboard I don't even have the option of changing something related to the network hardware, so that definitely can't be the cause.
Do you have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?
