@aiden21c it’s always the last place you look…

@viragomann omg facepalm yep, you're totally right. Thanks. I know what I did now. When I initially set up the OpenVPN client I entered the wrong credentials (and didn't realize it) so it didn't appear as an option when I was initially assigning an interface so I arbitrarily selected em2 not knowing it should have said something like ovpnc1.

Went back just now and changed it. Gateway shows as up. And was able to select it in my firewall rule. Beautiful. Thank you very much.

Olha, olhando o problema superficialmente, com as informações que você passou, já levando em consideração que você verificou cabos e etc, digo que sim o problema pode ser na placa de rede.

Não é normal ter problema de conectividade entre o pfsense e o modem, é um cabo, não é pra perder ping nem muito menos perder o MAC da tabela.

If the gateway the IPSec tunnel is on changes state, yes, there are scripts that are triggered to restart IPSec. rc.newwanip will probably be triggered if you have a dhcp or ppp WAN.

Steve

@SergeCaron This is the result of a configuration error. Mine, of course!

The "Disable Gateway Monitoring Action" option was checked on the Tier 1 Gateway on Box #1.

Clearing this option, everything is working as expected on both boxes.

Regards,

@SergeCaron (Sheepish grin) I figured out the "cannot uninstall cleanly" caution in Patch Manager. I installed the patch and Patch Manager happily reports it can be uninstalled cleanly.

Unfortunately, I can no longer reproduce the disapearing Gateway issue: even if I force a complete disconnect of Tier 1, the Gateway Group does not switch to Tier 2.

So, I will close this issue for now.

Thanks for sharing gateway settings