Ah, nice. You should make sure you have the serial console enabled and you are able to access it. The next time this happens you may not able to do anything else and rolling back changes from the console is a very easy way to regain access. Steve

I found the issue with the help of Netgate support. The backstory is that I had to reinstall the pfSense package after a botched upgrade recently. It didn't automatically reinstall these packages. Once I installed mailreport, I can now get into these notification settings! FYI, the web root (location of the web menu GUI menu structure) are located in /usr/local/www. The status_mail_* flles are added here when the mailreport package is installed.

Not really load balancing, but you can make your OpenVPN server to listen on both WANs and configure the client to connect to the other WAN IP if one fails. To do so, configure the OpenVPN server to listen on localhost and forward the OpenVPN packets from both WANs to it. In the client config simply add a remote line for the second IP.

@JKnott Nah, i only got a cable hanging from the ceiling terminated at the server room, no router or those Ethernet extender. The fiber line is from allstream, but it is the building management who maintain it and resale the internet to different floor. Been told it is just plug it into a switch, to the firewall and plug in the assigned ip. The thing is, it worked on a computer with ipFire, i will have to try it again this weekend to see if direct connection on the laptop works.

@stompro sorry for late posting, my internetprovider have had two days with problems due to power-outage in my area. Result of the <sysctl vm.kmem_map_free> command "vm.kmem_map_free: 218554368" so guess thats ok...?

....yup.

What is your appliance? Seems like this bug: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/10436 Please check softflowd from the command line

Indeed, it may not be but you should set them correctly in 2.4.5. f they are too big the setup code simply won't create them at boot. It logs that. Steve

@Cascadoo said in Pfsense not getting WAN IP from Arris TG1672G Modem (Bridged Mode): but as Raffi said it may be that I just had to wait a bit longer after it pfsense got a public IP. if there is no hard ISP limit (time delay, protection intervals) then DHCP should do its thing .... immediately so powering off the modem tells the ISP that it can allocate a new DHCP lease time... that when this is the question and this ISP CMTS setup... BTW: because the MAC learning, which is why the "MAC spoofing" often comes in handy

@johnpoz said in DHCP lease issue, my user needs to reconnect to access internet.: Just like the OPs comment to IPs being changed on the AP.. I was not in front of a PC for a few days, and I couldn't even respond to this... (it really has nothing to do with the icon problem) it is conceivable that this is a Technet article, something of a guess... I totally agree with what you described

You may find the following article of some use: sky-fibre-router-vdsl-password

Some further observations on this. I have several static route, under Advanced --> Routing. If I click the "delete" icon next to the route, then "OK" the prompt, the rule is deleted immediately, without any "apply" button, and without dropping active connections.? If, on the other hand, I click the "disable" button, then "Apply", connections drop as described above. Anyone got any ideas why this might happen?

The factory installer uses the tested default values, which is a UFS install. You could install to an XG-1541 with the CE image though and that will give you the option. Steve

@scratchydog - Do you still have this issue? do you see high memory consumption after this happens as well ? Does it impact your internet speed ? I am a noob to all this, and using a mini PC with multiple ethernet ports to run PfSense (nothing else is running at the moment), I have noticed the same issue with PPPoE WAN, which even showed that the connection was up for 15 hours when in fact I just rebooted PfSense. From the beginning I had issues with the PPPoE connection. Therefore not sure if these are related at all. While I have used PfSense on another Old PC with current ISP without any issue, I could not get PPPoE to work until I assign a generated MAC to it. Once connected normally I get around 78-93Mbps down.. but after restart it drops back to 0.5Mbps - 3Mbps. However, when I changed the MAC for WAN again and reboot, everything seems to work great. I have seen memory usage below 30% before this happened.. but eventually now it is using more than 70% of 6GB without much difference in network activity. [Btw, PfSense is running as a VM on Proxmox and NICs have been passed through] Happy to see if there are any similarities in the issue and get a better outcome for all. Many thanks!

I was doing some testing today and this is the output from a pfTop pfTop: Up Rule 1-181/181 (0), View: rules RULE ACTION DIR LOG Q IF PR K PKTS BYTES STATES MAX INFO 0 Pass Any 0 0 * all 1 Pass Any 0 0 * all 2 Pass Any 0 0 * all 3 Block In Log Q 25 2454 * drop inet from 169.254.0.0/16 to any 4 Block In Log Q 27 2187 * drop inet from any to 169.254.0.0/16 5 Block In Log 39086 6476285 * drop inet all 6 Block Out Log 73 59514 * drop inet all Rule 5 increments with ping requests to the target wordpress server we are having problems getting to. Any idea where rule 5 is coming from? Thanks

Sorry for the delayed answer. @Gertjan That diagram is just to represent how it was before I change Time Capsule from that Site A to Site B, now both devices are in 10.0.10.0/24. The idea that I tried to pass it was to show you that it was indeed two differente physical NICs per device. Both Firewalls, have DHCP servers in place, but 10.0.0.0/24 uses WS DHCP server, and all of those are working properly for months/years. In 10.0.10.0/24, there is at least one device with a local setup IP (10.0.10.6). But not signed for those two IPs, and I have already changed from static to dynamic IPs in DHCP server but got the same result. Its like both devices have been assigned with the same IP, but it was not, so I really dont know why its happeaning. After 3 days being massively spammed by arpwatch, it stops, Time Capsule using the right IP. Since I am not physically present in that site, I can only assume that someone have turned off that Apple TV. @stephenw10 I have made that several times. I didnt made any sniff attempt, but next time I will have to do it, because it wasnt normal. If I got this issue again, I will let you know, even if I find the reason for this to happean. Thank you all for the help, always appreciated!

Thank you for your detail information. I will try it.

@Gertjan I have 8.8.8.8 1.1.1.1 I am not new to networking, just new to pfsense and firewalls

CARP is for a high availability setup, where at least two routers are sharing a virtual MAC. @cl1nt said in Arp Issue - No wan: The MAC not change. So it's strange that it resumes working though.