Vlan Config and firewall rules
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Hello
I am new to pfsense nor am I an IT specialist so my my apologies if the problem I will straight forward to some of you.
I have a netgate 2100 with vlans configured, two internet sources fibre as primary and Starlink as backup and Unifi switches. On one of Vlans are some devices connected but when I added a new device about 6 weeks ago I noted a peculiar behaviour with the new device. Every 18-19 hours the device would reboot. Initially I thought that it was a problem with the new device and after numerous back and forth with the device customer service nothing seemed to resolve this problem and conclude that they may be an inherent factory fault. 3 days ago I got a new but similar device and like the the first device, after 18 hrs it rebooted. I must mention that I tried a lot of things in trying to trouble shoot the problem with the exception of the netgate 2100. So with the second device behaving like the first, I decided to move the two device to an LTE router, and it’s been more than 38 hours and non of the two have rebooted. The only conclusion I have come to is that maybe vlan config was not done properly but I have no idea where to start from. -
@wapabeti Would help if you gave some info.
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@wapabeti I can’t see a scenario where a router or network can cause a device to reboot by itself. Maybe a ground loop wiring problem?
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@Jarhead what additional info would you require?
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@SteveITS what I have notice is that at the precise time, I am unable to access the device using the IP address, but when I log into pfsense web GUI I can still see the IP, the device reboots due to lost if IP address.
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@wapabeti Are you using Kea DHCP, which, despite the warning banner in pfSense, is in "feature preview" and incomplete? If so I'd start by switching back.
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@SteveITS yes I am, kindly asking for instruction on how I can revert back.
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@wapabeti
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-7-1.html#kea-dhcp-server-feature-preview-now-available
"Administrators can easily switch between ISC DHCPD and Kea by navigating to System > Advanced, Networking tab and changing the new Server Backend setting in the DHCP Options section." -
@SteveITS Noted and I have switched back and will observe.
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@SteveITS Undate, this did not work
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@wapabeti If you think it's a DHCP issue is there anything in the pfSense DHCP log? Or a log on the device about why it's losing its IP? (which is what I understood you to say)
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@SteveITS Good day my sincere apologies for replying late, I had travelled and had no access to my network,I have upload screenshot of the Logs, 10.11.70.55 is the device in question and the logs are during the dropout. Hope this can provide more info
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@wapabeti So it's repeatedly reassigning the same IP? That was a problem in the very early phase of 23.09 as I recall, and fixed for not-early-upgraders and for all in 23.09.1. Are you on 23.09.1?
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/23-09-1.html#dhcp-ipv4 -
@SteveITS Good day am on 23.09.1, is there a way around this this issue?
