Additional info. When running Suricata on both WAN and LAN it stops working... Disabling Suricata on the non tagged interface (WAN) makes it run again.

@unsichtbarre said in pfSense as front end for /24: Could I just disable firewall in advanced settings? You could - but now you just exposed pfsense web gui, ssh etc to whatever can talk to any IP on the box.. Disable the firewall might be an option for some internal use of pfsense as just router. But not something I would suggest for when its routing public IP space. As mentioned in another thread - just use any any if you want to just route.. There is no advantage to disable the firewall aspects unless its performance related - and if your box can not route your traffic at speed with firewall enabled then it undersized anyway. Then you can at least filter who can talk to the pfsense gui, etc.

@viragomann said in Secondary WAN and High Availability: @bp81 Exactly. That is what VLANs are meant for, running multiple L2 networks on a single hardware. Yeah, I suppose that does make sense, it just never occurred to me to do it. I'm running an HA configuration now with a competing product using separate physical interfaces, but the router I'm using has 8 interfaces, so it's not as if I needed a vlan for this purpose to economize on limited interfaces either.

@unsichtbarre said in /24 from Cogent: I'm wondering if PFS can be used as a front end router? Yeah sure that is not a problem..

@steveits Packages installed ? NONE. CPU usage: about 50% when not doing the test (and otherwise no activity) No change when the test begins and ends. After the test has ended however, CPU Usage climbs from about 50% to 98% for 5 seconds, then it returns to its normal 50%. At the end of the day, it seems to me the SG-1000 may well be the bandwidth limiting factor. Should this be the case, then I will not change anything as I do no need such a high bandwidth anyway. Thank you for your kind assistance.

I just tried adding a Monitor IP to an existing gateway and had no error. Perhaps related to the VPN?

@boumacor Oh yes, Thanks for your concern.

@johnpoz said in Routing to client with wrong default gateway: @boumacor your welcome - glad you got it sorted. Yeah enough coffee does help ;) Coffee and pizza :)

@burninbogey6 said in Setting up routing: "when the WRT1200 is in bridge mode, it disables most of the router functions " dont use bridgemode, dus try with regular mode, don't use WAN port and connect the lan port to one of the ports of the switch. You might need to setup a gateway (ip adress of the pFsense device) in the LAN interface of the WRT1200 to get everyting working.

@viktor_g Might this will be helpful [2.5.2-RELEASE][admin@canlfw03.networklab.prod]/root: frr-reload /usr/local/lib/frr/frr-reload.py:805: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. Did you mean "!="? if line is not "exit-vrf": vtysh failed to process new configuration: vtysh (mark file) exited with status 2: b'line 46: % Unknown command: network 10.18.130.0/24 area 0.0.0.0!\n\n' Exiting: failed to connect to any daemons. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/frr/frr-reload.py", line 1424, in <module> if not vtysh.is_config_available(): File "/usr/local/lib/frr/frr-reload.py", line 116, in is_config_available output = self('configure') File "/usr/local/lib/frr/frr-reload.py", line 105, in __call__ raise VtyshException('vtysh returned status %d for command "%s"' __main__.VtyshException: vtysh returned status 1 for command "configure"

@viragomann maybe the php-script does something else than the shell command does

@viragomann The odd thing is that both gateways are available. If you ping the gateway - it is available, if there is something behind the gateway - the packets just seem to be dropped. I agree about the route 0.0.0.0/24, yesterday I did not realize it a little. Now I turned it off, it seems, it continues to work. I continue to monitor)

@periko or state table.

When you said Meraki mesh, I assume you have multiple sites using Meraki? If so, you need to make sure your local pfsense has ipsec to the site where the 10.1.0.0/24 subnet is.

@vertigo8 nothing pfsense can do about devices on the same lan talking to or discovering each other. For that you need to do that on your switch/wireless devices. Switch would be a private vlan. On wifi its called AP or Client isolation. Pfsense is involved with traffic leaving a network, to be routed somewhere else - it is not able to control what devices do on the local network amongst themselves.

@wayne47 It would be interessting to see your pfsense interface config and frr status. It sounds to me that you have an upstream gateway configured on at least one interface (the one you call wan) My expirence is that If you want routing to be handled by OSPF you should not have an upstream gateway configured on any of the interfaces receiving ospf routes and naturally also not override routing from firewall rules. If you want you default route to be one of the upstream edgerouters think you will need them to announce a default route.