VMB 500 5 Static IP Setup
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Hi Pfsense Users
Today i have received my static IP assignments from my ISP(Virgin Media Business) and i have been having some issues with getting it configured on PFSense.
WAN IP is set to one of the IP's that were assigned to me. Gateway is set as the gateway IP that they had provided in the instructions.
GRE Is logged in and connection on the Hitron router. DHCP is disabled on the Hitron.
on PFsense it shows as WAN connected and with the IP address, but any device connected to PFsense does not have internet access.
DNS is set, IP set. Gateway set but still nothing.
I am fairly a novice at networking and I'm trying to learn as much as i can, not sure on what is causing this issue.
Thanks for any help you can give.
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@acidzdesigns said in VMB 500 5 Static IP Setup:
GRE Is logged in and connection on the Hitron router.
The ISP requires a GRE tunnel?
Does pfSense show the gateway as on-line in Status > Gateways?
Steve
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@stephenw10 Apologies for the late reply. I was able to get it working but had issues with stability.
Issue 1. ISP Supplied me with the incorrect GRE Information, IP ranges.
Had an engineer from Virgin to come and take a look at it all. They couldn't get an internet connect on their own device.
As the guy went to phone his manager for some information. Swapped the gateway IPs around and it connected to the internet and was working. then problem 2 happened.
Connected kept dropping. Randomly it would just drop. Pfsense showed wan was still active and up, but pages stopped and any connections to the network were dropped. Running some game servers on my hardware and players got kicked from it. 5-10mins it would come back on. Till recently it dropped and it stay off for a day.
Called the ISP and got it swapped back to a dynamic IP. hopefully ill get the static range back.
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So the GRE gateway still showed as up when it stopped passing traffic?
Anything you did to restore it? Reconnect the GRE? Reboot?
You may well have two gateways defined in pfSense after setting that up. If the default gateway in System > Routing > Gateways is still set to auto it could be choosing the wrong one. Set that to the gateway you actually need.
Steve
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@stephenw10 On the modem GRE was connected. GRE wasn't configured on pfsense. for gateway the static gateway was setup and the default DHCP one was removed. In the end up it connected. just was not stable at all. Couldn't see why it wasn't
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@stephenw10 And when I swapped the gateway IP. it was swapped on the modem and on pfsense then it connected, it was set default to what was supplied to me from them
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So the GRE is between the "modem" and ISP only? pfSense just has a static IP that is routed over that?
Steve
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@stephenw10 So yeah GRE is connected on the modem to Virgin DC. pfsense connects to the modem with the static gateway and an IP from one of the assignments. then its connected.
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Hmm, so if you just lose upstream connectivity there's not much pfSense can do. You probably need to find out exactly how it's failing. If the gateway is still responding try a traceroute when it's working and when it fails. Where is it failing?