@tyler_rm your links vs just posting the image here is a bit off putting for someone wanting to help.
Here is a post I did year a go or so on how to validate if avahi is working.
https://forum.netgate.com/post/1003226
I personally am not a fan of breaking the L2 barrier like this - but in the link I go over how to actually validate if its working or not, etc. Hope that helps.
@tyz Also if you want to know when something is down etc - setup a external test. status cake or uptime robot allow for free testing.
I get alerted if my plex server goes down for example ;)
If the NIC/driver doesn't report it the OS has no way to know. Usually they do but SFP modules introduce a lot more variables and sometimes it will link fine but not report a speed or report as 'unknown'.
In System > Advanced > Misc you need to set Skip rules when gateway is down.
Otherwise the pass rule is still created but without the VPN gateway set when it goes down. Hence the traffic leaves over the WAN directly.
Steve
Edit: What Bob said!
Is it actually pulling a DHCP lease correctly? Showing a valid gateway?
If the WAN shows as UP but you cannot connect out on it you may have a bad lease there. A cable modem handing out private IPs for example.
Steve
I've never used Adguard so I can;t comment on the specifics there but if it's just DNS filetering then I'd expect to just set the DNS resolver in pfSense to forwarding mode and enter the Adguard IP in Sys > General Setup. Of course that will filter queries from pfSense itself too.
I just use pfBlocker on pfSense itself to do that.
Steve
Assuming the AP management is in the same subnet it too would need an ARP entry in order to reply to connections from the client. If pfSense is losing it's ARP entry or has a bad one the AP may well be seeing the same thing.
When it fails do you just see no ARP entry rather than a bad entry?
With no entry it should just ARP for the device to create one.
You should see ARPing entries in the pcap. Make sure you're not filtering them.
If the wifi interface became detatched n the client I imagine that would blow away any ARP entries that were built on it. I would still expect the client to just send ARP queries as soon as it re-attached though.
Steve
My IP block files are pfsense Aliases so backup is not an issue since these will be done with pfsense backup.
Unbound in Docker is a blessing I tell you. Backup is done with Synology using 123 backup strategy.
The WAN disconnects appear to have nothing to do with accessing the rockstargames sign-in page. Unless you are saying that is logged everytime you try to connect?
I see your LAN IP is the expected 10.0.10.1 though so that's good. The AP really is running as an AP.
I suggest continuing this in the other thread. Putting info in more than one place just confuses everyone.
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/176134/please-help-me-under-stand-what-the-issue-is/
Steve
There isn't a way to do it, and shouldn't be. Do not run something like that on your firewall, especially the unifi controller as it requires Java.
That is not a task you should be overloading on a security device.
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