internet is not stable
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hello everyone Yesterday we installed pfsense on a hyperv virtual machine, the server has 6 network interfaces I used 5 of the for WAN since I hgave 5 aDSL connections and the and one port used for LAN, I created aliasses groups and in firewall > rules > LAN I created rules for each alias group and in advance in the gateway I selected a gateway for each group, and I confirmed that each group is using that gateway by doing tracert command. my problem now is that inernet connection is not stable clients loose internet suddenly, any help where I have to start in order to diagnose the problem I'm not pfsense pro, thanks for any help
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https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Connectivity_Troubleshooting
You need to narrow the scope of the problem down. When this problem happens, can you still ping 8.8.8.8, for example? Is it working for everyone and then suddenly not working for everyone, or is it only with certain LAN clients? Do you have any packages installed like Snort or Suricata?
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Yup, that^. Find out exactly how it is failing.
Check the gateway logs to be sure that none of the gateways are actually going off-line.
Check the system logs for anything happening at that time.
Steve
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thanks for your help I will check and get back to you,
I still have one question about my routing method is it the correct method for routing clients to a different gateways, or there is a more efficient way for doing it
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You use firewall rules to route clients to specific gateways. The concept is called policy routing.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/book/multiwan/policy-routing-configuration.html
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Yeah, you might consider using gateway groups there instead so that if you do get a failure clients using that gateway failover to another one.
Steve
