At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?
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Thanks guys for the replies!
I'm glad that its not just me having this issue. I'm using Wi-Fi calling because of very bad signal inside and without it calls get dropped. My ISP is Comcast and WAN has public IP 76.121.xxx.xx.Can someone please help me with packet capture on the LAN interface, what do you use?
I came across this video that shows packet capture with Wireshark https://youtu.be/TWqdtVJSO_8?t=505 -
Diagnostics > Packet Capture
You'll have to filter on the phone IP address, not MAC address. You can filter on MAC address by capturing everything and filtering in wireshark.
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@Derelict said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
Diagnostics > Packet Capture
You'll have to filter on the phone IP address, not MAC address. You can filter on MAC address by capturing everything and filtering in wireshark.Thank you!
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@Derelict said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
You'll have to filter on the phone IP address, not MAC address.
MAC filtering works fine, provided a router isn't in the way. I frequently filter on MACs. This is especially useful on IPv6, where the IP address used changes daily. Also, if using IP address, you have to determine whether IPv4 or IPv6 is used. Using the MAC captures both. I have MAC address capture filters in Wireshark, for all my devices.
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Ok, so I looked up my phone LAN IP and ran packet capture and opened it in Wireshark, but it didn't give me much info other than it was using ESP protocol (IPsec) http://prntscr.com/nt1vtx
When I checked Status > System > Logs > Firewall > Normal View I found same
Verizon IP 141.207.229.233 (233.sub-141-207-229.myvzw.com) being blocked
In UDP protocol http://prntscr.com/nt1xcu
What is interesting is both times outgoing call went through and I was able to talk.
Afterwards, I waited another ~10 minutes and tried calling again and the call would not go through!
In pfSense firewall log the time did not change and it was still showing same time when call did went through http://prntscr.com/nt1z1vMy question is how do I tell make so that pfSense does not block this is type of traffic?
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@JohnnyBeGood said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
Ok, so I looked up my phone LAN IP and ran packet capture and opened it in Wireshark, but it didn't give me much info other than it was using ESP protocol (IPsec)
What you should be looking for is if there is any difference between when it works and when it fails. If you see the same coming from the phone when it fails, then the problem is likely pfSense. However, first get rid of one of the of the NATs. NAT breaks things, including UDP, so you don't want to use it more than absolutely necessary. Also, that ESP looks a bit strange. IIRC, I saw UDP, which encapsulated ESP, on my network. I'll have to look again tomorrow.
I have WiFi calling here and it works fine, with only pfSense providing NAT.
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i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
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@JKnott said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
However, first get rid of one of the of the NATs.
Can you please elaborate more on this?
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@JohnnyBeGood said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
@JKnott said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
However, first get rid of one of the of the NATs.
Can you please elaborate more on this?
Sorry, I had you confused with moikerz, who said one of his customers had double NAT.
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You'll have to filter on the phone IP address, not MAC address.
MAC filtering works fine, provided a router isn't in the way. I frequently filter on MACs.
@JKnott The Diagnostics > Packet capture page DOES NOT support filtering on MAC address. Had you continued reading you would have seen me say that everything could be captured and subsequently filtered by MAC address in wireshark.
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@Derelict said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
You'll have to filter on the phone IP address, not MAC address.
MAC filtering works fine, provided a router isn't in the way. I frequently filter on MACs.
@JKnott The Diagnostics > Packet capture page DOES NOT support filtering on MAC address. Had you continued reading you would have seen me say that everything could be captured and subsequently filtered by MAC address in wireshark.
It does here. From the text below the host address box:
"This value is either the Source or Destination IP address, subnet in CIDR notation, or MAC address.
Matching can be negated by preceding the value with "!". Multiple IP addresses or CIDR subnets may be specified. Comma (",") separated values perform a boolean "AND". Separating with a pipe ("|") performs a boolean "OR".
MAC addresses must be entered in colon-separated format, such as xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx or a partial address consisting of one (xx), two (xx:xx), or four (xx:xx:xx:xx) segments."That sure looks like it can capture MAC addresses to me.
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Lol. I do this all day every day and have never used that.
Ahh. Added in 2.4.0. Cool.
Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
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@JKnott said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
I'll have to look again tomorrow.
I just did that. I captured my phone's traffic, using a Wireshark MAC filter. Like you, I see the ESP protocol listed for the WiFi calling packets. However, you can see at the left, ">" that you can click on to reveal more info. Going down through that info, I can see a VLAN ID 1, priority 3, so they're giving priority to the calls.
Then further down, I see UDP and UDP Encapsulation of IPSec Packets and so on through the rest of the frame.Bottom line, WiFi calling, along with VoLTE, use UDP to encapsulate IPSec, as I mentioned above.
BTW, another thing I see is some NAT keep alive packets.
So, you have to compare when it works with when it doesn't to see if there are any differences.
Also, it would be helpful if you attached the actual packet capture files, rather than a screen capture, so that we can see what's actually happening.
Incidentally, one reason for using UDP is that it makes it easy to move calls between the cell and WiFi networks. If it wasn't used, the IPSec connection would break when moving between networks.
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@Derelict said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
Lol. I do this all day every day and have never used that.
Ahh. Added in 2.4.0. Cool.
It would be nice if they added MAC addresses to firewall rules. With IPv6, it's pretty much needed with privacy addresses.
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pf doesn't support filtering on MAC addresses at all.
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@Derelict said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
pf doesn't support filtering on MAC addresses at all.
Yep, that's the problem. IPTables, as used on Linux, does.
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@JKnott said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
@Derelict said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
pf doesn't support filtering on MAC addresses at all.
Yep, that's the problem. IPTables, as used on Linux, does.
Yes, as everyone is aware.
I do not personally think moving to layer 2 filtering is the correct solution to filtering outbound sourced from IPv6 privacy addresses. Trusted and untrusted segments makes more sense to me. Especially since, as you are obviously aware, MAC addresses can be easily spoofed so no real security is gained there.
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@JKnott said in At times WiFi calling and sending SMS doesn't work?:
It would be nice if they added MAC addresses to firewall rules. With IPv6, it's pretty much needed with privacy addresses.
Ok, so I tried to compare when I can dial and when I can't but could not see any difference and what is interesting when its working I do not see ESP protocol.
Other screenshot of pfTop is when I i'm on the call it creates connection to .233
When I can't make call over the Wi-Fi I turn it off place the call and it goes through after that when I turrn Wi-Fi on call goes through.Can someone please compare packet_capture.zip logs?
packet_capture.zip
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compare what zips?
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Attached file to the post. Forum software makes it not that visible.
