Intermittent Internet troubleshooting
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still went down.. pulled the dual Intel nic and replace with a single Intel nic. So now running onboard Intel nic for Wan and Addon card for LAN. Running like 10 instances of youtube and Netflix and it seems to be running smooth so far.. I really hope it was the dual card.
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went down again. Had like 10 youtube and netflix sessions going, was working great.
Anyone have any ideas for me? i am about to abandon Pfsense all together, sheesh.
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I feel like I'm talking with myself :)
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still went down.. pulled the dual Intel nic and replace with a single Intel nic. So now running onboard Intel nic for Wan and Addon card for LAN. Running like 10 instances of youtube and Netflix and it seems to be running smooth so far.. I really hope it was the dual card.
Did you try flipping bot interface? Use add-on for WAN and LAN onboard?
How about when you had your dual card did the traffic went on it for both wan and lan?
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I did. I tried all configs. one Intel nic on board isn't supported by 2.2.6 so I updated to 2.3 as it is supported. so now I am runnin. 2.3 with no add on card in the PCIe slot, 2 built in Intel cards. I am really running out of options. I use and need 3 cards in my setup so I will see what happens with this. . very frustrating.
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I am not the one with the most extensive experience in pfsense but if you could show some logs I'm sure more advanced users could chip in…
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that's the weird part, the logs say nothing.
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What is your WAN connected to? Could the problem be with that?
You said you upgraded from 2.2.6. Have you tried saving.your settings and do a clean install of 2.3?
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i switched the WAN to pretty much every NIC i had. I just did a fresh install of 2.3 and everything is working for now but before it took sometimes minutes, sometimes hours, sometimes days to go down. have my fingers crossed. I was just hoping to get some trouble shooting techniques to try to figure WTF is happening. My kids are killing me with the internet going up and down all day long :)
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Is 2.3 available now. I only see 2.2.6.
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it is just a snap shot, not the full supported release.
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back to screwed again.. Can't believe how unstable this is. I thought that 2.3 fixed the problem. Internet just goes down, only way to get it back up is a reboot. NOTHING in the logs at all. WTF can I do to fix this? I want to chuck the whole thing out the f'n window.
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And your WAN is what: DHCP, PPPoE, static - all that connected to a switch/modem/router/… ?
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wan is dhcp, connected directly to Nic. then Lan nic connected to small 5 port switch. haven't even got openVPN setup yet, trying to keep it very simple to get it stable.
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You mentioned Netflix and video so understand this may be a total stab in the dark but check this post out.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=109323.0 -
wan is dhcp, connected directly to Nic.
To NIC of what?
Please provide some more infos for us to get the picture. Right now it's shooting in the dark. -
here is a map of my network in it's simplest form..
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4IAV3fk9yIYT3VUQ3pzeFFEbWM/view?usp=sharing
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when u have connectivity issue try to ping the following
PFsense LAN ? success /Fail
PFsense WAN ?
Cisco LAN ?
CISCO WAN
8.8.8.8
www.google.com -
Was there ever a solution to this problem? I'm experiencing the same thing.
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honestly, I had Shaw come out to replace the modem but it was working pretty good before then. I am up and running fine now with the network card I thought was a problem. I honestly think the problem, at least for me was 2.3 and using dns resolver.
