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      Chooks
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      Hello, hoping someone can give me advice on this.

      I have pfsense set up with bandwidth limit through traffic shaper. It used to work before and I just removed it because we had a slow connection. Now that I just recently set it up, the internet connection drops. Same goes for when I set up a block access to the internet for a group of IPs (through Alias).

      Another thing, what could I be missing where I can't ping an IP but can access the shared files on it. I have multiple networks in my pfsense.Aliases.PNG Rules.PNG Static IPs.PNG Capture.PNG

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        SteveITS Galactic Empire
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        Do you have captive portal enabled? There's a patch for that in the System Patches package. (see various other threads)

        re: can't ping, usually:

        • ICMP not allowed in firewall between networks
        • ICMP not allowed by target host's firewall (common if outside its subnet)

        Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
        When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
        Upvote ๐Ÿ‘ helpful posts!

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          Chooks @SteveITS
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          @steveits Yes, I do have Captive Portals running but on a different network port. Does that cause a problem? Lately we've also been experiencing drops in our internet connection even without the bandwidth limit.

          @steveits said in Bandwidth Limit causing Internet dropout:

          re: can't ping, usually:

          ICMP not allowed in firewall between networks
          ICMP not allowed by target host's firewall (common if outside its subnet)

          Haven't done that yet, but I have learned from watching Tom from Lawrence System's video about ICMP.

          Thanks for your answer

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            Chooks @SteveITS
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            @steveits

            @steveits said in Bandwidth Limit causing Internet dropout:

            Do you have captive portal enabled? There's a patch for that in the System Patches package. (see various other threads)

            I don't quite get what you mean here. I am still searching for answers.

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              SteveITS Galactic Empire @Chooks
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              @chooks https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/12834
              -> https://forum.netgate.com/topic/169879/udp-icmp-is-not-working-after-upgrade-to-2-6-0

              Install the System Patches package:
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              It will be fixed in 22.05: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/22-05.html#captive-portal

              Pre-2.7.2/23.09: Only install packages for your version, or risk breaking it. Select your branch in System/Update/Update Settings.
              When upgrading, allow 10-15 minutes to restart, or more depending on packages and device speed.
              Upvote ๐Ÿ‘ helpful posts!

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                Chooks @SteveITS
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                @steveits I've already installed the patches thanks to you.

                I still need to reboot pfsense thought since there are people using it currently so I'll know if its working after the reboot.

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                  Chooks @SteveITS
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                  @steveits the error is still there. When I enable the bandwidth limit, all the other computer lose internet connection.

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                    codym
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                    Same issue here, I have a totally unrelated interface with a 40 Mbps traffic shaper on upload and download, whenever I enable captive portal on an unrelated interface and enable per user bandwidth limitation any other interfaces with a traffic shaper completely lose internet. What is happening here?

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