Unable to connect when adding a new interface

[Rajstopy]

Hi there,

I've been struggling for two days with a very weird problem.

I run OPNSense on a VM on ESXi 6.7 with 3 interfaces (LAN, WAN and DMZ). No rocket science till now.

I wanted to add a new interface for a 4G backup connection. However, as soon as a add this new interface in VmWare (just adding this new interface, nothing more), when I reboot OPNSense, the LAN interface does not respond anymore. If a have a look at startup summary, the IP is the good one, on my LAN network plan. I use static IPs.

I don't understand why just adding a new interface could lead to unresponsiveness on my LAN IF  :-\

Totally stuck at that point.

Any advice would be very appreciated.....

[Patrick M. Hausen]

FreeBSD and VMware like to shuffle the order of interfaces when you add/remove some. Try different permutations of port group assignments.

[Rajstopy]

Yes I guess this is the clue thank you!

I've found the following thread where someone encountered the same issue :

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=19378.0

Sometime amazing how you can waste time for almost nothing. I did check everything but Mac addresses 😤