AT&T Home Wireless Internet Gateway and pfSense
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Has anyone had success with the AT&T BGW530-900 on home internet service in bridge mode? At about midnight a setup I did for my mothers house on day one went basically dark and would not come back online.
Since I still have her on Centurylink DSL as a second WAN I have been able to reach the box but could not get WAN 1 to come back to life until rebooting the pfSense box.
To get bridge mode you have to also have a public IP address which she does. I can reboot the BGW530-900 from afar via the AT&T website but that did not help.
My SWAG is that something "DHCP" is not cooperating.
Since the reboot the Centurylink circuit (also in bridge mode) appears to get an address but will not pass traffic. I will have her reboot the modem when she gets there but concerned that both these paths seem to be hesitant to stay online.
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get bridge mode you have to also have a public IP address
Do you mean static? It’s been several years but when I had AT&T the passthrough mode gave pfSense a public IP via DHCP.
Edit: I don’t know the router model.
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@SteveITS said in AT&T Home Wireless Internet Gateway and pfSense:
get bridge mode you have to also have a public IP address
Do you mean static? It’s been several years but when I had AT&T the passthrough mode gave pfSense a public IP via DHCP.
I believe it is static.. but normally if you keep the gateway in normal mode you get a CGNAT address.. 100.x.x.x Right now she has a 65.68.x.x address and is reachable without the VPN I have set up.
Yep. I have it set up as DHCP. Worked flawless until midnight. I will say we had a wind storm here and the power there flickered a couple of times so I found out just after my first post.. Gonna see if the midnight thing happens again.
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It's just forwarding the traffic or are you using one of the 802.1X auth modes to get the IP directly?
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/authbridge.html
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@stephenw10 Good question.. I will have to do research. It did stay online last night so I'm wondering if the power fluctuations had something to do with it going down like it did.
This box is an older watch guard XCS email security platform with three ports. I've never seen them mentioned here before so it may have quirks that some of the other stuff doesn't.
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I have one of those. They are about as generic an x86 platform as you can get. I'd be surprised if it was doing anything too unusual. I think they are em NICs?
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@stephenw10 yes em interfaces .
She has pushed almost 50 gigabit through it in the last day and a half since the last reboot so seems like working well at this point..
