Default OPNsense Behavior?

[tibere86]

I have noticed this behavior on OPNsense version 18.1.1, I have not tested this on v17.X....

I have my WAN connected to igb0 and my LAN connected to igb1 on my network card. If I reset a OPNsense setup up back to Factory Defaults, OPNsense always (I've tested multiple times) automatically sets the WAN connection to igb1 and LAN to igb0. This causes the router to hang during the reboot after the reset and never boot back up fully. This would not be an issue if the boxes were local, but I need to be able to configure a couple of routers remotely.

How can I remedy this?
 

[bartjsmit]

Why don't you swap the physical network connections over?

Bart...

[weust]

It is default behaviour to assign the first NIC to LAN.
Has been since the start, and no doubt with the other Sense, and most likely m0n0wall as well.

[franco]

It's the notstalgic m0n0wall default and I wanted to switch too for our initial 15.1, but in the end we decided to keep the m0n0wall default. pfSense switched at some point AFAIK.


Cheers,
Franco

[tibere86]

Thanks for the explanation franco. That would explain why I have never seen this behavior on the other 'sense.

[phoenix]

It's the notstalgic m0n0wall default and I wanted to switch too for our initial 15.1, but in the end we decided to keep the m0n0wall default. pfSense switched at some point AFAIK.

Hi Franco

Was there a specific reason to keep the original settings or could this be considered for a change in the future?

[franco]

There are no plans to change the current behaviour.


Cheers,
Franco