Strange gateway behavior after ISP did upgrade (monitor IP fixed it)
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Hi All,
Something odd just happened with my home internet. My ISP - Spectrum did some upgrade (they planned it over email thread). Upon waking up from that night I discovered my gateway was down.
Strange thing is that if I bypass Pfsense and plugged consumer router, internet would be back.
After checking with TAC support they suggested to put 1.1.1.1 IP to monitor IP field. It fixed it!
So, what does this do outside form ICMP ping? Is it something new that ISP prefer now?
Thanks
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@cuteliquid11 possibly your new gateway doesn’t respond to pings?
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@SteveITS Can it be that after their "upgrades" they started to block device upstream ping? Is it new normal these days? I just never paid attention to this option and until recently never had this issue.
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@cuteliquid11 Possibly, or if you had set a fixed IP maybe that IP changed.
On a one-WAN system you can also check "Disable Gateway Monitoring Action" so pfSense won't take down WAN if there is packet loss. but will still log it.
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@SteveITS Do you mean in the routing? I'm planning to add 2nd ISP later and fail-over.
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@cuteliquid11 Yes if you edit the gateway in system>routing. But you'll want that on if you fail over so pfSense does something when WAN1 drops.
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@SteveITS Right, that's what I felt. I guess from now on I will be adding external IP's to monitor gateway.