2WIRE modem not giving out IP to PFSense
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I have this 2WIRE 2071-A modem that I use for my internet, it works great. I plug it into something, it gets an IP and it can get on the network. Except for my PFSense router.
No matter if i put it in bridge mode, change NICs, make the IP static, change cables, reboot, reboot, reboot, it just won't connect. If I use DHCP, in PFSense the WAN box is either blank or 0.0.0.0. If I reboot it hangs on startup.
Heres the thing though, if I plug it into a switch it gets an IP fine and I can access the internet as normal.
Kind of a pain because I don't really have any spare switches…
I have a shitty old Netcomm NB5 which works, but because of the TI backdoors and the buggy firmware (user+pass "isp" lets you in), the connection sucks (constant dropouts) and you can't access the internal network from the outside (it sends you to the modem admin page, which has been a known bug and was going to be "fixed" since 2005), I don't want to use it.
I'm fairly new to PFSense so i'm probably missing something. :P
Help appreciated.
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Did you make sure you were using a cross-over cable between your pfSense box and your modem?
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Sorry for not replying, I thought I would get an email if I got a reply, but I didn't. Lucky I checked back here.
The cable does say "cross over", so I trust it.
If I boot into Windows or something it gets an IP and it works, just not in pf.
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If you put a switch between the WAN port and the modem and it works, are you using the same crossover cable? Sure sounds like a cabling issue. What does Status->Interfaces say for WAN when you have the modem connected but not getting an IP?
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If you put a switch between the WAN port and the modem and it works, are you using the same crossover cable? Sure sounds like a cabling issue. What does Status->Interfaces say for WAN when you have the modem connected but not getting an IP?
As I said before, only this modem does it. I tried another one and it works fine. -
If it were me I'd put a blank VLAN on a managed switch between the two, and capture the traffic during DHCP and see what's going on.
You could run a packet capture on pfSense but I would rather have a mirror/monitor port doing it so you're positive you're not experiencing something on the wire that just isn't being picked up by the NIC and sent to tcpdump.
