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    cybis
    last edited by cybis Jul 21, 2021, 6:31 PM Jul 21, 2021, 6:31 PM

    Hi,

    I'm looking for a documention of the dpinger error codes. Unforunately not all error codes are listed at https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/gateway-errors.html

    For example, what's the meaning of error code 50?

    dpinger 	9302 	WAN_DHCP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: sendto error: 50
    

    BR

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      cmcdonald Netgate Developer @cybis
      last edited by Jul 21, 2021, 7:55 PM

      @cybis sendto error 50 usually indicates that the interface is down. Are you sure the interface is up?

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        cybis
        last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 6:56 PM

        @cmcdonald Thanks a lot for your input.

        I have a site-to-site OpenVPN connection between siteA (server with WAN IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) and siteB (client with WAN IP yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) on the tunnel network ccc.ccc.ccc.0 which drops and re-establishes at least once every one to two weeks unfortunately. I have a lot of those dpinger error messages when this happens.

        Sometimes the WAN interface seems to get a link-local address temporarily, i.e. the interface seems to go down and up again (on 2021-07-21 at 14:20:14 for example). However, this is not always the case. The last time my VPN connection was "renewed" was on 2021-07-22 09:20:15 where only siteB reported a lot of dpinger errors without any interface messages at neither of the sites.

        Here are the gateway and OpenVPN logs for both sites:
        gateways_siteA.txt
        openvpn_siteA.txt
        gateways_siteB.txt
        openvpn_siteB.txt

        I'm not sure how to further debug this issue. I was hoping to get more insight with a proper dpinger error code documentation as I'm not sure whether this is an ISP issue (both sites have the same ISP), a pfsense configuration issue or even a firewall hardware issue (both sites have the same type/model of a Protectli box).

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          Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate @cybis
          last edited by Jul 23, 2021, 7:35 PM

          @cybis It's not a dpinger error code. It's a standard error code.

          This lists the ones people typically encounter:

          https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/troubleshooting/gateway-errors.html

          Error 50 isn't included there so:

          https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=errno&apropos=0&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+12.2-stable&arch=default&format=html

          50 ENETDOWN Network is down. A socket operation encountered a dead network.

          You can look at the system log, etc and look for link down messages, etc. Or examine the network while the problem is occurring.

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            cybis @Derelict
            last edited by Jul 24, 2021, 12:59 PM

            @derelict Thanks for the clarification an the FreeBSD link.

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