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    Internet connectivity drops at least daily

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    • W Offline
      wood_e
      last edited by

      Background:
      Running 2.3.3 on a Mac Pro with Esxi
      Technicolor 8305 All in one cable modem
      Modem is bridged mode

      I'm running basically default settings on PfSense and have noticed the issue of the internet dropping at least once a day. In order to get it back up I need to reboot my modem and pfsense. This did not occur with my Archer C2 router.

      Things I've tried:
      Disable IPV6 on WAN
      Disable gateway monitoring
      Changed payload size from 0 to 1

      System logs don't give me anything useful, and Gateway logs are sometimes inaccessible during the outage. I'll try to grab the gateway logs via ssh.

      Some ideas would be greatly appreciated. My wife would appreciate it  ;)

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        Mr.Goodcat
        last edited by

        Hi,

        have you identified any pattern when these drops occur? This might be related to what I experienced, i.e. an expiring lease on WAN due to a DHCP which only answers to broadcasts. Might be worth to take a look at your DHCP client log.

        https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=127023.0

        Regards

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        • W Offline
          wood_e
          last edited by

          I can't really put my finger on a pattern of the drops. It seems to happen overnight more than not. I'll check out that link.

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            pfBasic Banned
            last edited by

            Are you still using the Archer C2? If so are you using it as an AP only?

            Have you set pfSense up to email you notifications when things go wrong? If not give that a shot, it might point you in the right direction.

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              chpalmer
              last edited by

              Have you verified that your cable provider isn't doing some night time maintenance?  What do the cable modem logs show?

              Triggering snowflakes one by one..
              Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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