Hi
I have set up Proxmox in my home server like this and I am having problems with an Ethernet adapter. My home server only has one Ethernet adapter so I am using the a tplink usb ethernet adapter with the Realtek rt8153 chipset to connect to the internet gateway.
When I installed Proxmox and Pfsense it was working fine. I assigned the network device representing the tplink USB adapter to the vmbr1 bridge. After configuring Pfsense, I could access to the internet with no issue.
After I upgraded the proxmox host and rebooted because there was a new kernel, proxmox was telling me that the Network device representing this tplink USB adapter was not active, but the Linux bridge associated to it was active. I could not access the internet and it seems no data was going through it. The device is not suposed to go active by itself, but how can the bridge be active but the device associated remain inactive?
After another reboot, now the device shows as active, but there is still no data going through it.
I have tried checking the logs but I see nothing strange. Can anyone advice on how to debug this issue? How can I look into why the device was not active when the associated bridge was?
EDIT: After lots of websearching and tests, it seems there is a problem in the firmware of the device that Realtek is looking into. One solution when the device stops working is to boot up without the ethernet cable connected and connect the cable once the device is fully boot up. That breaks the block (believe it or not). It has nothing to do with the Proxmox system.
I have set up Proxmox in my home server like this and I am having problems with an Ethernet adapter. My home server only has one Ethernet adapter so I am using the a tplink usb ethernet adapter with the Realtek rt8153 chipset to connect to the internet gateway.
When I installed Proxmox and Pfsense it was working fine. I assigned the network device representing the tplink USB adapter to the vmbr1 bridge. After configuring Pfsense, I could access to the internet with no issue.
After I upgraded the proxmox host and rebooted because there was a new kernel, proxmox was telling me that the Network device representing this tplink USB adapter was not active, but the Linux bridge associated to it was active. I could not access the internet and it seems no data was going through it. The device is not suposed to go active by itself, but how can the bridge be active but the device associated remain inactive?
After another reboot, now the device shows as active, but there is still no data going through it.
I have tried checking the logs but I see nothing strange. Can anyone advice on how to debug this issue? How can I look into why the device was not active when the associated bridge was?
EDIT: After lots of websearching and tests, it seems there is a problem in the firmware of the device that Realtek is looking into. One solution when the device stops working is to boot up without the ethernet cable connected and connect the cable once the device is fully boot up. That breaks the block (believe it or not). It has nothing to do with the Proxmox system.
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