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    How to get Bell Fibe in Quebec/Ontario (Internet and IPTV) working with pfSense

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      Bastion
      last edited by

      Great topic ! Thanks to all posters for sharing.

      All system working smoothly here since couple of days.
      One wired pvr (VIP-2622)
      One wired stb (VIP-2502)
      One wireless transmitter (VAP-2500)
      Two wireless stb (VIP-2502)

      The igmpproxy is broken on 2.2.5 and had to be updated according to this post https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=93293.0
      The igmpproxy version on 2.3 is up to date and works https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102729.msg572837#msg572837

      Regards,

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        zax123
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        Thanks so much for posting this!

        I'll definitely wait till 2.3 then before upgrading.  I'm at 2.2.4 right now and all is good.

        I'm about to upgrade my box to a Jetway quad Celeron (just waiting on a Black Friday deal) because my little APU box can't handle my GB fiber. :)  So I'll have to run 2.2.4 on the new box until they release 2.3.  Any idea when that might be?

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          Harryrosen
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          Hi

          I got everything working great, but for some reason I loose 1 channel after a couple days, I have the reboot my pfsense and it works fine again, any ideas why it's only 1 channel losing signal?

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            singerie
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            I have the same issue (with TLC).

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              zax123
              last edited by

              Are you guys running pfSense 2.2.4 or 2.2.5?  I heard there are bugs in igmproxy in 2.2.5…

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                Harryrosen
                last edited by

                I am running 2.2.5

                Can you downgrade to 2.2.4?

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                  Bastion
                  last edited by

                  I had same issue before updating the broken igmpproxy on 2.2.5, and had to update it according to :
                  https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=93293.0n

                  The igmpproxy version on 2.3 is up to date and works flawlessly :
                  https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102729.msg572837#msg572837

                  Regards,

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                    Harryrosen
                    last edited by

                    Just updated to 0.1 and rebooted looks like it's working

                    how do I check if it was upgraded, I put the igmpproxy in the command line and it asked for the conf file.

                    under services it's running but just want to make sure it's now 0.1

                    thanks I am new to all this

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                      Bastion
                      last edited by

                      If you go into diagnostics > command prompt and type "pkg info" into "command" it shows:

                      igmpproxy-0.1_2,1 Multicast forwarding IGMP proxy

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                        Harryrosen
                        last edited by

                        Awesome

                        All upgraded

                        Thanks

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                          surrealillusion
                          last edited by

                          So I tried following this guide to get my Bell Fibe TV and Internet working.  Internet obviously was easy enough but my PVR boots up with a message saying Network Connection error every time.  The PVR does receive an IP from pfSense but I guess it's not able to communicate with Bell servers?

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                            zax123
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                            @surrealillusion:

                            So I tried following this guide to get my Bell Fibe TV and Internet working.  Internet obviously was easy enough but my PVR boots up with a message saying Network Connection error every time.  The PVR does receive an IP from pfSense but I guess it's not able to communicate with Bell servers?

                            What version of pfSense are you using?  You might want to use 2.2.4 as IGMP proxy doesn't work well in 2.2.5 (and I suspect 2.2.6 as well).  Read up thread about that.

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                              surrealillusion
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                              Yeah I saw that earlier in the thread and also read that in the 2.3 alpha the igmpproxy package was updated.  The only thing showing up currently is:

                              Dec 30 11:20:38 igmpproxy 89210 RECV Membership query from 192.168.1.1 to 224.0.0.1

                              For my proxies I added:

                              224.0.0.0/4
                              10.0.0.0/8
                              192.168.1.0/24 (since the default lan is not contained in either subnet for upstream

                              downstream of course is the default pfSense LAN subnet.

                              The IPTV WAN does get a dhcp address (but it's not exactly the one listed in the original thread, but that's likely that there are numerous servers based on location).  What else should I be looking for in my wireshark dumps to understand if the PVR is communicating properly?

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                                zax123
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                                I would think that you probably have something missing in your rules or IGMP proxy settings.  Have you compared them to the original post?  Do you have other rules that could conflict?

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                                  surrealillusion
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                                  Ah just noticed I needed to set the advcanced option in both the LAN and IPTV_WAN firewall rules.  Still no luck so far after applying that setting.

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                                    zax123
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                                    Even if IGMP proxy isn't working, you should still get a few seconds of video when you change channel.  If you aren't getting that, I would suspect the problem is with your VLAN setup.

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                                      surrealillusion
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                                      Yeah I'm not even getting that, the PVR boots up and displays a Network Connection error message so I don't even get to the apps.  I've got vlans 35 and 36  created and put the IPTV_WAN on vlan 36 on my ethernet that connects to the ONT.  VLAN35 works for Internet as I'm posting this message but 36 doesn't seem to work.  The DHCP address I'm getting for the Fibe TV appears to be correct (though in my logs it's saying it can't ping the gateway that has been provided for the interface, not sure if that is normal).

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                                        zax123
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                                        Where do you see that you can't ping the gateway?

                                        My gateway IP is 10.240.112.1, is yours something similar?

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                                          surrealillusion
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                                          @zax123:

                                          Where do you see that you can't ping the gateway?

                                          My gateway IP is 10.240.112.1, is yours something similar?

                                          In the gateway logs I believe it's using the monitor IP to check the health of the link

                                          Dec 30 14:21:14 dpinger send_interval 250ms loss_interval 1000ms time_period 25000ms report_interval 0ms alert_interval 1000ms latency_alarm 500ms loss_alarm 20% dest_addr 10.227.32.1 bind_addr 10.227.43.30 identifier "WAN_IPTV_DHCP "
                                          Dec 30 14:21:16 dpinger WAN_IPTV_DHCP 10.227.32.1: Alarm latency 0us stddev 0us loss 100%

                                          Yeah my IPTV gateway is different … hmm

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                                            zax123
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                                            I see you're using dpinger.  I believe they switched to dpinger in pfSense 2.3.  Are you using 2.3?

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