OPT ports not appearing in Bridge menu

[razer1073]

Hi,

I am attempting to bridge my extra ports on my system and the OPT ports are not displaying in the dropdown menu, only LAN and WAN are displaying and I have assigned the ports as OPT1 and OPT2.  Thanks

[seiya_balthazar]

I registered to see if I was the only person who had this issue. The thing that is skipped in the https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/lan_bridge.html documentation is that you have to enable the interfaces in order to add them to the bridge. During installation OPNsense only does the WAN and one LAN port. If you have a device that has more than 2 ports those are by default off. IMO step one of the "How to set up a LAN Bridge" page should show how to verify that all the network ports are active through the gui so that they can be added to the bridge. I'll add to this post with how I figured that out but wanted to leave something on the forum so that is shows up in DuckDuckGo/Google searches

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Don't assign the interfaces you want to bridge to OPTx. In the end you want the bridge interface assigned to LAN and the physical ports as members of the bridge.

The linked part of the documentation explains it quite well, I think.