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      xavier8854
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      Hi
      I freshly installed my Netgate box (SG 1100) and cannot make it work at all. I simply cannot ping outside, even the gateway. For now, no filtering nor NAT are configured, I just try to ping the GW

      Obviously the DSL router works, I can attach Ethernet directly to it and access its configuration.

      Please note that I'm not a Network or FreeBSD newbie, technical help is appreciated

      Here is the network config from CLI :

      [21.02.2-RELEASE][admin@gondor.groumpf.org]/root: netstat -rnW4
      Routing tables
      
      Internet:
      Destination        Gateway            Flags       Use    Mtu      Netif Expire
      default            192.168.1.254      UGS        3069   1500 mvneta0.4090
      127.0.0.1          link#6             UH          594  16384        lo0
      192.168.1.0/24     link#10            U        798255   1500 mvneta0.4090
      192.168.1.253      link#10            UHS           0  16384        lo0
      192.168.100.0/24   link#11            U          3321   1500 mvneta0.4091
      192.168.100.253    link#11            UHS           0  16384        lo0
      [21.02.2-RELEASE][admin@gondor.groumpf.org]/root: ifconfig mvneta0.4090
      mvneta0.4090: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
      	description: WAN
      	options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
      	ether f0:ad:4e:1b:b1:9d
      	inet6 fe80::f2ad:4eff:fe1b:b19d%mvneta0.4090 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
      	inet 192.168.1.253 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
      	groups: vlan
      	vlan: 4090 vlanpcp: 0 parent interface: mvneta0
      	media: Ethernet 1000baseT <full-duplex>
      	status: active
      	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
      [21.02.2-RELEASE][admin@gondor.groumpf.org]/root: ping 192.168.1.254
      PING 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254): 56 data bytes
      ping: sendto: Host is down
      ping: sendto: Host is down
      ^C
      --- 192.168.1.254 ping statistics ---
      2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
      [21.02.2-RELEASE][admin@gondor.groumpf.org]/root: arp -a
      gondor.groumpf.org (192.168.100.253) at f0:ad:4e:1b:b1:9d on mvneta0.4091 permanent [vlan]
      ? (192.168.100.30) at 48:2a:e3:a9:00:cd on mvneta0.4091 expires in 1132 seconds [vlan]
      ? (192.168.100.254) at 34:27:92:63:8a:7a on mvneta0.4091 expires in 1168 seconds [vlan]
      ? (192.168.100.144) at d0:50:99:c1:12:79 on mvneta0.4091 expires in 1151 seconds [vlan]
      ? (192.168.1.253) at f0:ad:4e:1b:b1:9d on mvneta0.4090 permanent [vlan]
      ? (192.168.1.254) at (incomplete) on mvneta0.4090 expired [vlan]
      

      One can download myconfig .xml here
      Thanks for any help,
      Xavier
      https://www.amdh.fr

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      • stephenw10S Offline
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        The gateway is not responding to ARP. Something else already using .253? I would expect to see a conflict like that logged though.

        Can you try DHCP on WAN instead? Is the DSL router enabled for dhcp?

        Steve

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          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @xavier8854
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          @xavier8854 said in Cannot ping WAN gateway:

          ? (192.168.1.254) at (incomplete) on mvneta0.4090 expired [vlan]

          As already mentioned if you can not arp it, you can not ping it - and no nothing is going to work if that your gateway to the internet.

          You need to figure out why you can not arp for that.. Even if dupe you should see answer to arp..

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