Cannot assign network interface

[mscdex]

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Describe the bug

External/pre-made network interfaces are not available for assignment. Specifically, the network interface created by the net/wifibox FreeBSD port is not able to be assigned for the purposes of firewalling and routing (or configuring of the IP for the interface). The network interface does show up in the overview, where it's listed as an "unassigned" interface. It also shows up when trying to add it as a wireless device, presumably because the PHP code sees that the interface name starts with "wi" and assumes it's a wireless device (when it's technically not).

For what it's worth, here are the two interfaces created (wifibox0 is the one I want to be able to work with from OPNsense):

wifibox0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	ether zz:zz:zz:zz:zz:zz
	inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
	id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
	maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 2000 timeout 1200
	root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
	member: tap0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
	        ifmaxaddr 0 port 12 priority 128 path cost 2000000
	groups: bridge
	nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
tap0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	options=80000<LINKSTATE>
	ether yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy
	inet6 xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%tap0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xc
	groups: tap
	media: Ethernet autoselect
	status: active
	nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
	Opened by PID 96614

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have a wireless card supported by Linux installed and not in use by FreeBSD.
2. Install the net/wifibox, net/wifibox-core, and net/wifibox-alpine ports (already in the OPNsense ports)
3. Configure wifibox appropriately.
4. Start the wifibox service
5. Navigate to the interface assignment page in OPNsense

Expected behavior

To have the wifibox0 interface show up for the purposes of assigning, allowing me to set the IP address, firewall rules, routing, etc.

Describe alternatives you considered

Finding a way to manually configure routing and firewall rules in FreeBSD without causing issues with OPNsense. I really don't want to have to resort to that.

Environment

Software version used and hardware type if relevant, e.g.:

OPNsense 22.1.x (amd64, OpenSSL)

[fichtner]

Typically you want to add a plugin specification for the network devices, esp. coming from a third party software that needs compiling and configuring anyway.

Cheers, Franco

[mscdex]

At this point I'm only really interested in adding firewall rules and routing and the interface does not seem to be anything out of the ordinary, so I wasn't sure why OPNsense couldn't directly work with it?

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