Why does smoothie work but pfsense, monowall,clark, etc not?
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Hi,
I've been using smoothwall for years but wanted to try out others..
I see openVPN in pfsense so I am motivated to get it to work…For some strange reason, my PPP half bridged dsl modem will only work reliably with smoothwall.
In smoothwall I saw this:
IPADDR=x.y.z.a
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=x.y.z.b
BROADCAST=255.255.255.255
GATEWAY=x.y.z.a
DNS=x.y.z.c
DHCPSID=10.0.0.2 <== that is the dsl routers lan side ip address
DHCPGIADDR=0.0.0.0
DHCPSIADDR=0.0.0.0
DHCPCHADDR=00:40:33:kk:kk:kk
DHCPSHADDR=00:01:E1:pp:pp:pp
DHCPSNAME='ÿ'
LEASETIME=60
RENEWALTIME=30
REBINDTIME=52
INTERFACE='eth1'
CLASSID='Linux 2.4.29 i686'
CLIENTID=00:40:33:kk:kk:kkAnd all works smoothly for years (pardon the pun).
In pfsense, the logfile shows an IP renewal every 30 seconds and on the console I see the phrase "terminated" about that often or even more.
dhclient[1234]: bound to x.y.z.a == renewal in 30 seconds
Why would it be renewed so often and does that explain why my web browsing experince is very very hit or miss?
I can browse the web for a bit with normal activity and then I will get several 'page not found' and then back to normal.
I have similiar experiences with other new software routers.
All very weird. anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks in advance
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pfSense requires atleast 128 megabytes of ram.
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Fair enough, I should have posted my config, 'my bad'
PII 266 Dell optiplex with 256meg ram
No rocket but I thought it should do the job.
Remember, I am running from liveCD (great idea by the way!!)
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The issue being that we cannot process dhcp reconfigurations that fast.
At least not every 30 seconds. Try to up the lease time to at least 5 minutes in the dsl modem.
That way it should behave a bit better.