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    • dragoangelD
      dragoangel
      last edited by

      Ping would return "Permission Denied"
      I know how help you. Lol

      Latest stable pfSense on 2x XG-7100 and 1x Intel Xeon Server, running mutiWAN, he.net IPv6, pfBlockerNG-devel, HAProxy-devel, Syslog-ng, Zabbix-agent, OpenVPN, IPsec site-to-site, DNS-over-TLS...
      Unifi AP-AC-LR with EAP RADIUS, US-24

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      • dragoangelD
        dragoangel @wangel
        last edited by dragoangel

        @wangel Answer simplest question:
        Did you use 8.8.8..8 as monitoring IP for WAN?
        If answer is: "YES", then: change it. Google ban icmp from time to time. I have such experience before. You can use 1.1.1.1, at least I don't have issue until with it. If you use tunnel broker you can ping your tunnel endpoint (good practice too)

        Latest stable pfSense on 2x XG-7100 and 1x Intel Xeon Server, running mutiWAN, he.net IPv6, pfBlockerNG-devel, HAProxy-devel, Syslog-ng, Zabbix-agent, OpenVPN, IPsec site-to-site, DNS-over-TLS...
        Unifi AP-AC-LR with EAP RADIUS, US-24

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          wangel @dragoangel
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          @dragoangel
          Thanks for that info ... but I tried pinging other ips too. I tried 1 I know I can always ping, 192.107.41.3.

          I also tried 8.8.4.4.

          The entire Internet drops out --- not just pinging google =(

          Thanks,
          wangel

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          • dragoangelD
            dragoangel @wangel
            last edited by dragoangel

            @wangel Really strange that only reboot help. You tried reboot modem and not pfsense?

            Latest stable pfSense on 2x XG-7100 and 1x Intel Xeon Server, running mutiWAN, he.net IPv6, pfBlockerNG-devel, HAProxy-devel, Syslog-ng, Zabbix-agent, OpenVPN, IPsec site-to-site, DNS-over-TLS...
            Unifi AP-AC-LR with EAP RADIUS, US-24

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              wangel @dragoangel
              last edited by

              @dragoangel
              Yes sir --- rebooting the modem does no good, I can't get a DHCP address =(

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              • dragoangelD
                dragoangel @wangel
                last edited by dragoangel

                @wangel said in pfSense drops Internet ?:

                @dragoangel
                Yes sir --- rebooting the modem does no good, I can't get a DHCP address =(

                If you connect pc straight to modem this not reproduce?
                P.s. hate modems))

                Latest stable pfSense on 2x XG-7100 and 1x Intel Xeon Server, running mutiWAN, he.net IPv6, pfBlockerNG-devel, HAProxy-devel, Syslog-ng, Zabbix-agent, OpenVPN, IPsec site-to-site, DNS-over-TLS...
                Unifi AP-AC-LR with EAP RADIUS, US-24

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                  wangel @dragoangel
                  last edited by

                  @dragoangel
                  Correct, if I connect PC straight to modem it works.

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                    biggsy @wangel
                    last edited by biggsy

                    @wangel said in pfSense drops Internet ?:

                    Correct, if I connect PC straight to modem it works.

                    Have you tried spoofing the MAC address of your PC under Interfaces > WAN > General > MAC Address?

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                    • RicoR
                      Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
                      last edited by

                      What is your ISP and modem?

                      -Rico

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                      • kiokomanK
                        kiokoman LAYER 8
                        last edited by

                        and if i can ask.. do you have suricata/snort running inline mode?

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                          wangel @kiokoman
                          last edited by

                          @kiokoman Suricata is running, but it is running in Legacy mode.

                          I thought it might have something to do with Suricata also.... but I didn't see anything in the logs showing that....

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                            wangel @Rico
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                            @Rico ISP is Spectrum ... modem is a Surfboard 6183 or 6180, I forget which. But it's a Surfboard.

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                              wangel @biggsy
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                              @biggsy
                              No, I have not tried that. I can just to see what would happen tho, heh.

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                              • chpalmerC
                                chpalmer
                                last edited by chpalmer

                                @wangel said in pfSense drops Internet ?:

                                Can you please show a screenshot of this page- SystemRoutingGatewaysEdit

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

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                                  wangel @chpalmer
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                                  @chpalmer GW1.PNG

                                  gw2.PNG

                                  gw3.PNG

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                                  • chpalmerC
                                    chpalmer
                                    last edited by

                                    Try clicking the "Disable Gateway Monitoring Action" box and see if it reoccurs. Re-enable the gateway monitoring.

                                    You should let the monitoring happen so you can look and see later if your ISP is dropping out or not by watching the logging graphs. StatusMonitoring

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

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                                      wangel @chpalmer
                                      last edited by

                                      @chpalmer Done.

                                      Will monitor/report back if it happens anymore. Thank you sir!

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                                        ady2
                                        last edited by

                                        I have similar issue (Internet stop working on all interfaces) described here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/143661/one-interface-loses-internet-access-and-i-could-get-it-back-only-after-reboot-the-pfsense
                                        but still no solution found

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                                        • GertjanG
                                          Gertjan @ady2
                                          last edited by Gertjan

                                          @ady2 said in pfSense drops Internet ?:

                                          I have similar issue

                                          Probably not.
                                          @wangel didn't post back, so, fingers crossed : case closed.
                                          The other thread is also a case closed.

                                          Btw : problems described might match, and if so the answers in these threads contain the solutions.
                                          If your problem is identical, the proposed solutions would also work for you.
                                          So, what is it : the problem looks identical, but you did not apply proposed solution ? Why not ?

                                          No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                          Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                            wangel
                                            last edited by wangel

                                            @Gertjan You jinxed it!!!!

                                            Not really ... I hadn't posted back because things had been working, until about 4pm EST yesterday, when it died again.

                                            I was able to access resources from the outside (ie: My Camera system etc), but internet out would not work. I also could connect to the vpn, type in my password, but the vpn would never establish.

                                            When I got home, I had no internet. I could get on the pfsense box, but if I tried to ping the outside world, I would get "permission denied". Now was the time I needed to figure this out.

                                            Over the past couple of days, I had been working on setting up Graylog and sending my logs from Pfsense to it. It's working, so I figured I'd go digging.

                                            Sometime yesterday, about 3:35pm EST, Unbound, or Quad9, or something lost their minds. It started flooding my firewall and pfsense blocked my own public ip. That explains "permission denied". I tried running /etc/rc.filter_configure. That fixed it so I could ping OUT from the pfsense box, but nothing from the LAN side could still ping. At this point, I rebooted.

                                            Whatever it was, was Quad9. Everything was on port 853, and to and from ip 149.112.112.112.

                                            That being said, DNS is setup on pfsense going to cloudflare first (1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1) and then I had 9.9.9.9 and 149.112.112.112 as the 3rd and 4th dns entries.

                                            I've removed Quad9 from the equation, so we will see if it happens again. I don't know if it was unbound doing something ... or something on my network that started making a ton of calls to 149.112.112.112, but whatever it was cause the PF to end up blocking my WAN Interface.

                                            I will continue to monitor and report back.

                                            Thanks all!

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