Internet Connections fails - Time to time & Low bandwidth

sai

HI

I forgot to do this after the new installation. now it does not go down but sometimes very slow. In the mean time I could clean some Trojans in our LAN as well. Now the situation is under control. Can any one explain this why my Diagnostics: System logs: Firewall has this entry every minute?

Mar 19 07:12:27 WAN 172.16.0.1:5678 255.255.255.255:5678 UDP

Thanks!

Manjula

its coming from WAN so its not your internal network, its coming from the Internet. like Hoba said, its upnp broadcast so nothing for you to worry about.

manjula

Hi

Thanks Hoba & Sai I appreciate your valuable comments. Still my connection is poor. The "Status: Traffic Graph" shows a high utilization but there is no such traffic. LAN side ping request goes up to 3046ms (sometimes 14000,12000) though graphs shows 254 in WAN side. I've noticed a significant Outbound traffic sometimes its more than the Inbound. (at that time most of the users were just using web)

I need your help further.

Thasnks

Manjula

hoba

I think it's time to do some inspection on the traffic to see what's going on. Watching the pftop from console or ssh will show you some live values. Other option is to sniff the traffic with something like wireshark. I had a similiar situation at work which I only got resolved by using a spanport on the lan uplink of my pfSense and sniffing the traffic.

manjula

Hi

Yes Hoba. As you said I did an inspection on my traffic but couldn't find any major problems. So then I just connect the WAN connection to my PC's Firestarter it works fine. I think something wrong with the firewall even my ADSL connection did not work well since it was connected to OPT1(When I use it as WAN1 connection it works fine, though it has a Dynamic IP). Don't know this is a problem with routing/loadbalancing or both.

I remember I had to skip some steps when installing the pfsense - but now I cant remember exactly what I have ignored.

Now the problem is more complicated.

Manjula

hoba

Can you try running from the livecd and just configure the basic things so we can exclude a broken installation?

manjula

Thats a good idea. I will try out this. Any idea about why my ADSL connection doesn't work?

manjula

Hi

I tried installing this again the only error I had was

"Exicution of command /sbin/fdisk -v -f /tmp/new.fdisk ad1 failed …..... fdisk warning line1: number of cylinders (19679) may be out of range" must be within 1-1024 for normal Bios opration unless the entire disk is dedicated to freeBSD.... number of sectors must be within (1-63)

I'm using a Gigabyte mother board and could not find where to set LBA (But when the pc is rebooting it say HDD LBA is On)
I could proceed by skipping the error. So my question is Will this effect the internal operation like routing in the future though I ignored it? If so any other solution for that?

thanks

Manjula

hoba

I have seen problems with bioses that run AUTO for the disks. Even though they output LBA in the bios and the bootup freebsd is detecting a different geometry when the bios is set to LBA instead of AUTO which leads to different issues. I wouldn't want to live with that situation even though it seems to be working atm. You never know when the filesystem might blow up due to that.

manjula

When I'm installing the firewall had this problem "/sbin/fdisk -v -f /tmp/new.fdisk ad1" I'm using a 40GB Hard disk and a Gigabite main board. Still I could continue the installation by skipping the error. So will this effect my WAN connection to go down? I found that I have to use LBA for my HDD but I coun't fnd that option on my main board..

Pls help me!

manjula

Sorry dint see your comments on the 2nd page..

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