pfSense

I can confirm an almost identical problem.

I have pfSense configured with 2 dual NIC cards:

• bge0 -> PPPoE (WAN) to DSL
• bge1 -> LAN
• em0 -> OPT1 -> wireless
• em1 -> not enabled

So what happens is, I'm using a different firewall, and I'm about to switch over to using the new pfSense firewall. The old firewall IP is 192.168.0.1. First I disconnect the old one from the DSL and connect the pfSense box to the DSL, and I make sure the pfSense logs in and gets a PPPoE connection. However, the pfSense box is sitting on IP 192.168.0.3 because it's not the gateway yet.

Then I go into the pfSense console, select assign IP to interface, select LAN, and change the IP to 192.168.0.1, bit count 24. It seems to go smoothly, but when the menu screen comes up, it shows that the LAN adapter is now bge0 instead of bge1. Then nothing works! It's quite a mess, so I have to go back to the old firewall, then re-assign my adapters. It's quite a pain.

I re-tested on the 2.1-BETA0-i386-20121014-1810 snapshot.

Unfortunately, the problem still occurs.

• WAN: pppoe0
• LAN: em1
• OPT1: rl0
• OPT2: em0
• OPT3: xl0

• WAN: pppoe0
• LAN: em0
• OPT1: rl0
• OPT2: em0
• OPT3: xl0

My em0 card is now assigned to two interfaces, LAN and OPT2.

Applied in changeset 202699ad0153ab3e57c3792c3d1493e4a7276e03.