Note to self – if attempting to change the IP address of the OpenVPN server/service, you need to disable the interface then re-enable it, otherwise the DNS Forwarder selection of active interfaces will still take the old IP address (and therefore fail to start).
You will be able to see the pfSense’s debug logs showing a failed attempt to listen on the old IP.
Apparently, making this 4x SFP+ card work is not as straight forwards as I thought…
Sigh, so much for “plug and play pray”…
As per the source/s instructions, I created a /etc/networkd-dispatcher/configuring.d/90-disable-on-chip-LLDP.sh:
#!/bin/sh
if expr "$IFACE" : <interface prefix> >/dev/null; then /sbin/ethtool --set-priv-flags "$IFACE" disable-fw-lldp on fi
WARNING: Make sure your <interface prefix> is able to only address the X710 interfaces, or you will likely get errors or, worse, brick your NIC. As an example, my X710 interfaces are all named enp1s0fN so I use the <interface prefix> of “enp1s0f”
To check, simply give the command ethtool --show-priv-flags <interface prefix>.
