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    Occasional PPTP problem and Multi WAN failover problem

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      dspaan
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      I already posted this in a related topic but since no one replied i decided to make my own topic.

      First off: Thanks for this awesome firewall! We have been using 1.2.2 for 2 years and i recently upgraded to 2.0.

      Version:
      2.0-RC2 (i386)
      built on Thu May 12 10:52:38 EDT 2011

      I have two problems:

      1.After updating it seems the firewall now uses multi gateway failover for some reason? We have two gateways, the first is for normal internet traffic like browsing, sending e-mails, etc. The 2nd gateway is for VoIP only and has a much higher bandwith the the first (default) gateway. Since we are a callcenter we have a lot of VoIP traffic. We noticed that when we restart the modem attached to the 2nd VoIP gateway it starts routing the traffic over the default gateway. Result is that every employee we have cannot work anymore because the default gateway is not meant to handle all the VoIP traffic and gets congested. Is it related to this issue: http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1520
      Because if so i would love to see an option to turn that feature off!

      2.Just like the creator of this topic our PPTP VPN has stopped working. I want to use the PPTP server on pfSense. The only thing i want to do is connect to the office when i'm at home woring on my windows computer. I checked the Advanced section and scrubbing is off and in the rules section i had a PPTP rule for WAN and WAN2. I deleted those and turned off the PPTP server and then turned it back on (so it could re-create rules) but no luck…. Help would be appreciated!

      edit: VPN seems to work now. I think it was because i was testing from within the office. I was using WAN2 as default gateway and figured i could make a VPN via WAN gateway but i guess not. Also the disableing and deleting the rules must have worked because before that it didn't work from home. Hope some can reply to my first question. Thanks in advance.

      edit2: It seems i could not connect anymore after a while. I had to reboot pfsense and then PPTP would work again.

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        dspaan
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        No replies?  :'( :'( :'(

        I still have my PPTP problem. Everytime i connect it works fine and then after a while i can't connect anymore. I have to reboot pfSense before i can connect again.

        Also i keep seeing new updates but how do i know which issues have been addressed in each update? I don't want to update when it doesn't address the issues i'm having trouble with.

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          eri--
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          For 1. Can you show some system logs?
          Normally if you have choosen a gateway in a rule it will behave that way.

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