Mystery 'Reply From' address
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@cmb Cable modem is an ARRIS SURFboard SB6183. Not sure how to answer about the type of WAN…it is Time Warner cable.
Thanks for your help.
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The modem should just be a bridge in that case. You have a public IP on WAN I presume?
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rfc1918 space is not routable on the public internet.. We are all using it.. There is no reason to try and obfuscate your network that are using this space.. It just make its it harder to help you..
I use 192.168.9.0/24 for my lan for example… pfsense is at 192.168.9.253 while my box is at 192.168.9.100
If address space your dealing with is in the private range - there is no reason to hide any parts of this..
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@CMB Yes, WAN interface is set to use DHCP and is getting an address from Time Warner.
@johnpoz OK, my internal subnet is 172.16.24.0/24. pfSense firewall is .1. My PC is .55
If this is my cable modem I wonder why it is not consistent. I'm also not sure what I could do if it is the modem. Any thoughts on ways to troubleshoot this?
Again, thanks to you both for your help.
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So when you ping something on your own segment
Pinging 172.16.x.251 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.250: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255
Reply from 172.16.x.251: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 172.16.x.251: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64And you get a response from something else along with the response from the actual device.. Does this device have multiple IPs? What is this device 172.16.24.251 your pinging for example??
And you say you have nothing on your network using 192.168.1.?
What happens when you try and ping that 192.168.1. address that you got a reply from? These are wired and not wireless.. Do you have wireless how is it connected?
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The device I am pinging (.251) is the Wireless Access Point…it is a Wireless Router but is in WAP mode. It is on the same network but not in the connectivity path. It does not have multiple IPs...it gets one from the pfSense DHCP server and the .251 address is reserved for it.
Yes, there is no 192.168.1.0 network. There was in the past (a couple of months ago). That network was provided by the Wireless Router when it was in router mode.
Pinging the 192.168.1.250 address:
PS C:\Windows\system32> ping 192.168.1.250Pinging 192.168.1.250 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.250: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.250: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.250: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.250: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255Ping statistics for 192.168.1.250:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 4ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 4msEverything I am working with right now is wired. I do have a wireless access point and it just participates in the internal subnet provided by the pfSense firewall. It is 172.16.24.251.
Pinging from the WAP:
PING www.yahoo.com (98.138.253.109): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 98.138.253.109: seq=0 ttl=44 time=66.914 ms
64 bytes from 98.138.253.109: seq=1 ttl=44 time=51.565 ms
64 bytes from 98.138.253.109: seq=2 ttl=44 time=80.229 ms
64 bytes from 98.138.253.109: seq=3 ttl=44 time=57.837 ms–- www.yahoo.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 51.565/64.136/80.229 ms -
Also, pinging 192.168.1.250 from the pfSense firewall fails:
PING 192.168.1.250 (192.168.1.250): 56 data bytes–- 192.168.1.250 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss -
Well yeah pfsense would fail trying to ping that IP since it would send it out its default gateway interface..
So you can ping that from your box… Look in your arp table what is the mac on that 192.168 AP.. What does that equal assuming its your AP.. Which is what exactly??
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It's not in the arp table:
PS C:\Windows\system32> ping 192.168.1.250
Pinging 192.168.1.250 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.250: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.250: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.250: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.1.250: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=255Ping statistics for 192.168.1.250:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 4ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 4ms
PS C:\Windows\system32> arp -aInterface: 172.16.24.55 –- 0x6
Internet Address Physical Address Type
172.16.24.1 00-08-a2-09-c6-69 dynamic
172.16.24.4 00-26-b9-88-ac-16 dynamic
172.16.24.19 00-11-32-02-e6-4e dynamic
172.16.24.50 ac-3a-7a-a6-98-39 dynamic
172.16.24.51 50-1a-c5-ed-33-db dynamic
172.16.24.53 a0-88-69-14-b1-62 dynamic
172.16.24.59 7c-1e-52-86-20-cc dynamic
172.16.24.62 5c-ad-cf-8e-bb-9c dynamic
172.16.24.251 1c-b7-2c-d9-95-d0 dynamic
172.16.24.255 ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff static
224.0.0.2 01-00-5e-00-00-02 static
224.0.0.22 01-00-5e-00-00-16 static
224.0.0.251 01-00-5e-00-00-fb static
224.0.0.252 01-00-5e-00-00-fc static
224.0.0.253 01-00-5e-00-00-fd static
239.255.255.250 01-00-5e-7f-ff-fa static
255.255.255.255 ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff staticThis is such a weird issue.
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do a traceroute to it..
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PS C:\Windows\system32> tracert 192.168.1.250
Tracing route to 192.168.1.250 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.16.24.1
2 4 ms 5 ms 4 ms 192.168.1.250Trace complete.
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That's almost certainly your modem. 4 ms is too low for it to be traversing the coax and looks to be too consistently 4 ms for that as well.
I haven't heard of anyone else seeing anything like that. Though there is some buggy firmware going around on TWC for SB6183 modems, I'd only heard of it breaking IPv6, not doing stupid things with IPv4. See this thread for instance, and the links to dslreports there.
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=108971.0
