pfSense+ MultiWAN False reporting of Monitor IP down
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pfSense+
I have a SG-5100 (running v25.07.1) where:
MultiWANWAN2
Status: Danger, PacketlossEven though I can go to
Diagnostics,PING
Select that interface (WAN2)
and am able to Ping everything okay
including the Monitor IP Address for that Gateway...I have to now set
Disable Gateway Monitoring Action
so that I can use that interfaceHave tried restarting dpinger service
still having problemCan anyone advise on what this could be?
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@KB8DOA
Did you set monitoring IP under Routes WAN2 gateway? -
@w0w
Yes I did:
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@KB8DOA Maybe it is already used or whatever. Try a different IP-address.
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Does not matter which PINGable IP Address I use, same problem.
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@KB8DOA
Has this configuration ever worked properly at all? And what was done that made it stop working? -
Hi @KB8DOA - From the screenshot you posted above, I assume you have T-Mobile 5G Home Internet running on WAN2? If so, I ran into similar issues recently. Under Advanced settings for your WAN2 gateway, try increasing the
Data Payload
parameter from the default value of 1. For T-Mobile Home Internet I believe 4 was the minimum value that worked for me, but you can choose a larger size as well. This is likely also the reason that regular pings succeeded through Diagnostics/Ping as these ping probes use 56 bytes of data by default vs. dpinger's 1.https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/routing/gateway-configure.html#advanced-gateway-settings
Hope this helps.
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@w0w said in pfSense+ MultiWAN False reporting of Monitor IP down:
@KB8DOA
Has this configuration ever worked properly at all? And what was done that made it stop working?It works sometimes,
then all the sudden stops working.I have just tried increasing the "weight" to 4,
per @tman222 suggestion.I hope this resolves it...