SOLVED Unable to 'admin-down' unused interfaces, advice please ?

[Andy McClements]

I have a FreeNAS host here with a 4-port Intel PCIe card, of which the first two ports are each connected to a separate 'core' switch. There is a failover lagg configured on them for switch redundancy, and I am also running vlan tagging. The other two ports (igb2, igb3) are unused and unconfigured.

I do not want the unused ports taking up space in the dashboard. I've not yet been able to find any way to re-configure the dashboard to hide them.

Therefore I have tried #ifconfig igb2 down, #ifconfig igb2 delete, #ifconfig igb2 destroy but none have had any effect. I have also tried putting the same commands into the interface 'options' under Network/Interfaces/Edit, but this had no effect either.

It seems that something is interfering with the proper operation of ifconfig, but I don't know what, nor how to fix it. Please advise. Thanks.

 

[Andy McClements]

Due to the numerous shortcomings of FreeNAS for my use case, of which this, TBH, is one of the least significant, I will be expunging FreeNAS/TrueNAS from my system, and replacing it with straight FreeBSD.

Bye.