Does anyone know how edit the Alarm and Clear latency settings for the gateway log entries?

Jeffala

Hello All,

Under Status / System Logs / System / Gateways, I am seeing log entries there are usually in pairs. The entries are normally an indicator that I temporarily lost my connection to the internet. Below is an example where I lost my connection for about 2.5 minutes.

Time Process PID Message
Jul 6 09:39:32 dpinger 69684 XXXXXX_DHCP xxx.xxx.xxx.x: Clear latency 18174us stddev 15259389us loss 5%.
Jul 6 09:37:01 dpinger 69684 XXXXXX_DHCP xxx.xxx.xxx.x: Alarm latency 9241us stddev 12098us loss 21%.

Does anyone know what the threshold percentage triggers are set for the Alarm and Clear entries?
Is there a way to edit the event thresholds?

Thanks,

Jeffala

johnpoz

@Jeffala Now this going to seem crazy ;) but its under system, routing, gateways ;) Click the little pencil to edit and you can edit the monitoring thresholds under advanced..

If you want you can disable the action if you want. There is a disable monitoring action.

Jeffala

Hello Johnpoz,

Me like crazy.

I found the Advanced settings. Under Packet Loss thresholds, mine was set to the default of Low = 10% and High = 20%.

I will adjust the threshold hold setting to more closely match an outage and help eliminate the messages that do not result in an outage.

Thanks again!

Jeffala

P.S. I just joined the forum today and if your prompt reply and helpfulness is typical of this community, I will have to go kick myself for not installing pfSense sooner and joining the forum!

johnpoz

@Jeffala There are many knowledgeable and helpful pfsense users here.. Always happy to help fellow fans of pfsense.

Welcome and have fun!

It is not uncommon for pings to get dropped say if you start saturating your link, so adjusting can help with that - or just disable the action, you will get warned if you start seeing loss - but your interface won't go down, etc .

stephenw10

Especially if it's monitoring the default gateway IP. ISP gateways often prioritise ping replies pretty low. Try setting an external monitoring IP to get a better idea of real connectivity.

Steve