Accessing CPE outside firewall and traffic stats
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Hi,
please excuse the vague title, it's all i could come up with as my issue is quite strange..
I recently set up a PPPoE connection through a DSL modem and wanted to access the management interface of said modem to collect SNMP data. I followed the steps lined out in the documentation [0] and it all works as expected. My physical WAN interface is em0, that's what the PPPoE client uses so as described in the docs i set up an OPT interface on em0 called EXT1 and created an NAT rule for that interface. Now all the traffic that goes through WAN shows up in the traffic stats and graphs for EXT1 as well.
I'm wondering if this behaviour is to be expected or if i messed up the config somewhere.
[0] https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/modem-access.html#
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That is expected since all the traffic inside the PPPoE connection is using em0. The NIC stats report it as well and any IP traffic using em0 directly.
Steve
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Thank you for clearing things up!
