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General Discussion / Re: Trouble configuring network bridge

« on: November 20, 2024, 04:10:33 am »

I finally got a chance to try the steps you outlined when my roommate was out. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but your steps helped me out and I eventually got it. I know at one point I got on the computer directly and reloaded all the services, and it seemed to all come together after that. I did a speed test and I'm really pleased with the results! I was able to easily get 10gb/s with only about a core and a half of my cpu which is perfect. Thank you so much for all your help everyone.

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General Discussion / Re: Trouble configuring network bridge

« on: November 17, 2024, 12:12:17 am »

That's entirely my bad with the bridge screenshot. I did try to assign the bridge to the lan interface and get the same error as shown in the new screenshot. I must have missclicked or something in the first picture, that's entirely my bad.

I am very sorry if I'm misunderstanding what either of you are saying, I'm kind of new to this and am trying to break in with this setup in my new apartment. I'll try to address all your questions and comments.

I've assigned an IP to the second port just like I showed in the picture from my second post. I've also tried to just assign ix0 to the lan, and then place ix0 in a bridge with the other ports, neither really did what I thought it would do. Similarly, putting ix0-ix3 in a bridge and assigning that to lan doesn't work with the error attached in the new picture.

Yes, I am looking to have multigig networking, I was not aware that that could cause problems for me. If I had to guess it'll probably be because of a cpu bottle neck due to no hardware acceleration? I think for now I'm willing to bite that bullet until I can actually afford a multi gig switch, I'm just trying to increase the lan connection speed between my desktop computer and the server I'm running proxmox on.

The onboard interface is assigned to wan, I've double checked and that is connected to the box from my isp.

I do really appreciate you two sticking with me this long, if you know what I'm doing wrong please share it with me so I can hopefully figure this out.

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General Discussion / Re: Trouble configuring network bridge

« on: November 16, 2024, 09:07:39 pm »

Yeah, I know I have more than usual, this solution was just cheaper (And I was hoping easier) than getting highspeed network switches. I think I tried what you suggested, I say I think because I may have messed up a step.

One of the things that is really stumping me is under interfaces/assignments all the guides make it seem as though you can set the lan port or change the assignment for an interface, but that doesn't seem to be the case. The identifier can not be changed on my screen, and is tied to an interface that can also not be changed. The only thing I can change is the device attached to that interface/identifier. You can kind of see this in my pictures.

I took the second port on the x540, assigned it an ip, then went and added the all the other ports to the bridge. When I got to the assignments page, I tried to assign the bridge to the lan identifier but still no luck.

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General Discussion / Trouble configuring network bridge

« on: November 16, 2024, 05:53:47 pm »

I'm trying to configure a network bridge on my new router and am having trouble. My computer has an onboard 1g nic attached to the motherboard and I added an intel x520 and x540 to the computer. Right now, one of the ports on the x540 is my lan port, but I'd like to connect all 4 ports to be lan, and make it so that computers plugged into any of those 4 ports can talk to each other. I've set up a test bridge for just the x540, but when I try to assign it to lan, opnsense complains that my lan port is in use. But I can't unassigned my lan port because I'm using that to talk to opnsense... I'm not really sure how to proceed. I've been following this guide:
https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/lan_bridge.html
And it seems to mostly line up with what I see, but it looks like some screenshots/wording is out of date. If anyone has done this before and understands what I need to do I would appreciate any guidance.

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General Discussion / Re: Problems updating OPNSense router

« on: November 05, 2024, 12:48:01 am »

I do have this from the reporter. I had a notification at the top of the OPNSense dashboard. The time coincides with when I usually have my daily outage.

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General Discussion / Re: Problems updating OPNSense router

« on: November 05, 2024, 12:32:31 am »

Perhaps I'm confused, in the video I'm trying to perform a major version update. Before the video the OPNSense dashboard showed me on 24.1.8, and after the video I'm still on that version. Not only that, but it looks like it didn't even update the packages it said it would as they seem to still be pending.

System logs says "No results found" When I navigate to it. Same thing for cron jobs.

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General Discussion / Problems updating OPNSense router

« on: November 05, 2024, 12:06:37 am »

Forgive me because I'm really new to all this, but I'm really trying to learn. I setup an OPNSense router in my home and have been experiencing several problems. The most annoying problem is that every day between 10:30 and 11:30 my internet cuts out. I'm not saying for sure it's the fault of OPNSense it just never happened before. I tried to fix this by updating my box, but it looks like updates won't take. I followed a guide online, but I get this when I try to update.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTD_INlzvuLUnMlYUnzT0MTEeR_Zouyz/view
I apologize for the low quality hand held video, it looks way better if you download it instead of watching it in google drive. I'd appreciate any help anyone can provide.