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    XDSL as bridge with pfSense

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      Gradius
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      I have pfSense running to internet by xDSL as bridge.

      Everything is working fine, but I'm getting PING request 2x every second:
      14:12:58.501320 IP 187.113.x.x > 186.215.0.1: ICMP echo request, id 23825, seq 46592, length 44
      14:12:58.506943 IP 186.215.0.1 > 187.113.x.x: ICMP echo reply, id 23825, seq 46592, length 44
      14:12:59.506303 IP 187.113.x.x > 186.215.0.1: ICMP echo request, id 23825, seq 46848, length 44
      14:12:59.512034 IP 186.215.0.1 > 187.113.x.x: ICMP echo reply, id 23825, seq 46848, length 44
      14:13:00.511304 IP 187.113.x.x > 186.215.0.1: ICMP echo request, id 23825, seq 47104, length 44
      14:13:00.517002 IP 186.215.0.1 > 187.113.x.x: ICMP echo reply, id 23825, seq 47104, length 44
      14:13:01.512294 IP 187.113.x.x > 186.215.0.1: ICMP echo request, id 23825, seq 47360, length 44
      14:13:01.517576 IP 186.215.0.1 > 187.113.x.x: ICMP echo reply, id 23825, seq 47360, length 44
      14:13:02.517302 IP 187.113.x.x > 186.215.0.1: ICMP echo request, id 23825, seq 47616, length 44
      14:13:02.523047 IP 186.215.0.1 > 187.113.x.x: ICMP echo reply, id 23825, seq 47616, length 44

      Is this normal?  186.215.0.1 looks like PPPoE gateway.

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        Gradius
        last edited by

        Those pings are really necessary?

        Any way to stop this?

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          wallabybob
          last edited by

          I presume @Gradius:

          14:12:58.501320 IP 187.113.x.x > 186.215.0.1: ICMP echo request, id 23825, seq 46592, length 44
          14:12:58.506943 IP 186.215.0.1 > 187.113.x.x: ICMP echo reply, id 23825, seq 46592, length 44

          is a packet capture on the pfSense WAN interface and 187.113.x.x is the IP address of the pfSense WAN interface. If so, this is a "link quality" probe and the frequency can be adjusted from the pfSense web GUI: System -> Routing, Gateways tab, click on e button on the right of the WAN gateway, tick the Disable Gateway Monitoring box or scroll down to the Advanced section and adjust the value in the Frequency Probe box. (The description seems a bit clumsy. I suspect it would be better described as Period between probes.) Then click Save (to update the configuration file) and Apply (to update the running configuration).

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            Gradius
            last edited by

            Fantastic, it must be that (will test after I clear my connection).

            As for "Disable Gateway Monitoring", if the link (as xDSL) goes down for few seconds, it will not come back online again (Dynamic IP) ?

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              Gradius
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              Tested with "Disable Gateway Monitoring" ON, and it brights the link UP again w/o problem.

              So that would only apply to something critical, like wireless link.

              Other than that, I can only think on RRD Graphs to report for quality link.

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