Have I set this up right or am I being stupid?
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Sorry for the delayed response been away for work.
It appears whatever was the cause has gone. Been over a week and no connection drops.
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Nice, something upstream then. Good result.
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@stephenw10 Afraid to say about 10:30am the internet died. This was followed by the usual unimpressed look from the wife as she was knee deep the the latest season of the witcher.
From the pfsense dashboard the WAN interface shows down
I can connect to the web GUI of the modem and that looks good.
From here i've done the usual tests.
VDSL Status
ping and nslookup from desktop
DNS lookup from pfsense
Monitoring from pfsense
Then I tried to even force it
Ultimately I went to the logs.
I rebooted pfsense, nothing. Rebooted the Draytek Vigor 166 modem and it came back to life. I'm kinda stumped at this point so going to ask Draytek support incase i've missed some sort of logging their box does but if you guys see anything i've missed please let me know.
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Hmm, does it comes back up if you only reboot pfSense and not the modem?
You can see in the logs that it is seeing at least some response from Vodaphone's servers so the connection is making it that far.
If you manually close the connection while it is working correctly and then try to reconnect does it fail?
Steve
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@stephenw10 Thanks for the response on a sunday, if i just reboot the pfsense VM the connection is still down which is why I may be leaning towards the modem now and have raised a support case with Draytek.
I'll try killing the connection later on today, I dare not get between her and Henry Cavill lol
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Ha, yeah best avoid that!
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@stephenw10 So from the status > interfaces section i downed the connection waited 10 seconds (why is it always 10 seconds in IT) then reconnected. Worked fine.
Just waiting on Draytek now.
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Yeah, that seems to rule out some of the PPP issues I've seen in the past.
I guess you could try just rebooting the modem, that would seem to confirm it if it comes back up without doing anything in pfSense.
Steve
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@stephenw10 Thats how i had to get it to work yesterday a reboot of the vigor 166.
Luckily already had an email from Draytek asking me to update to the latest firmware...... the one i have told them i am already on :).
See how that goes.
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Mmm, interesting. They are usually pretty good. I had years of good service from a V120 and the V130 is pretty much the go-to option for regular VDSL. The V166 supports g.fast though I was thinking about getting one as there's no line stats from the Openreach Huawei MT992, it's fully locked down.
Steve
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@stephenw10 I'm hoping that an altnet will be taking orders for 1Gb here in the next few weeks then i will be going direct from the PON to my pfsense VM so won't be using the 166.
I only bought the 166 because i was having this issue with a 130.
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@stephenw10 Just thinking out loud but with any of your drayteks did the enable the ddos functions via CLI? I wonder if i've just overworked the modem, but then surely if the options are there it should run them.....
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I never tried. I'm not sure the V120 has that option. Also I wouldn't expect it to do anything unless it's running in router mode since in modem mode the public IP is on the pfSense WAN.
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@stephenw10 Thats a fair point i never thought about. As it won't hurt to do it i may as well re flash and leave default.
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@stephenw10 I have a horrible thought all of this is because of me, so looking over the vigor 166 settings i had ALL of the ddos settings enabled and hardware acceleration, I can only assume i just did it on auto pilot. I'm guessing then this can be closed, i can only imagine that after a while the logs ect just crapped out needing a reboot to clear things down. I've performed a .rst upgrade on it and this time left it all alone. Time will tell i guess.
Thanks again though :)
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Well, if that's true it seems like a bug in the Draytek firmware. I wouldn't expect to be able to enable things and cause it to crash out.
That would be an easy fix though so...
Steve
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@stephenw10 just a little update, since resetting the modem my TB BQM has calmed down.
Before:-
After:-
All stock, no hardware acceleration or DDoS settings so really weird never seen behaviour like it but think it points all my issues at that.
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Mmm, that is interesting. Good result though.
