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    Everything working ok on BT Infinity, but PPPoE says it's offline?

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      steveharman
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      Hi,

      bit of a strange one - I've got my v2.3.4 system up & running for BT Infinity (fibre) here in the UK, configured WAN to PPPoE and am using bthomehub@btbroadband.com / bt as the PPPoE login credentials.  My WAN port is connecting to a BT OpenReach VDSL modem for our FTTC connection.

      Everything is working fine - great speed too, except the "Gateways" section of my Dashboard in pfSense shows WAN_PPPOE with a Status of Offline in red.  Also I see two different IPs for WAN and PPPoE - is that expected?  Screenshot attached.

      probably something I've done wrong, or not yet done.

      Thanks in advance,

      Steve
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        NogBadTheBad
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        172.16.15.38 lies in rfc1918 address space it wouldn't be routable on the internet.

        Click on the spanner under gateways and display both, guessing you have a "Rogue" monitor IP thats got in there somewhere, delete it if it shows.

        Also check System -> Routing -> Gateways -> Edit

        Thinking about it, maybe someone has configured 172.16.15.38 on the OpenReach VDSL modem and pfSense has piclked up on it, you can get stats off some of them.

        Andy

        1 x Netgate SG-4860 - 3 x Linksys LGS308P - 1 x Aruba InstantOn AP22

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