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    pfSense keeps disconnecting/reconnecting in UniFi Controller

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    • bingo600B
      bingo600 @johnpoz
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      @johnpoz
      I have ntopng + zabbix agent installed.
      Have never seen any strange ssh.

      /Bingo

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @bingo600
        last edited by johnpoz

        @bingo600 yeah I have no idea why something would try and ssh to itself from its own IP? But ntop does have the ability to active monitor.. Atleast the full current version does - not sure about the package version in pfsense.

        Not sure if ssh was available as one of the things to check? I know like icmp, ping, http, etc was..

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          dragonfire1119 @johnpoz
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          @johnpoz Been monitoring it no more logs with blocking so far. We're getting better speeds and 4 ms ping now.

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          • bingo600B
            bingo600 @johnpoz
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            @johnpoz

            If something from the inside tried to ssh to the "outside/wan"
            Would it be natt'ed to the wan first ?

            So that wan ssh's wan

            If it was comming from real wan (spoof) , then i'd hope the packets would be blocked , and not getting a "ban"

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            • johnpozJ
              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @bingo600
              last edited by johnpoz

              @bingo600 said in pfSense keeps disconnecting/reconnecting in UniFi Controller:

              Would it be natt'ed to the wan first ?

              No..

              I just hit my wan IP from lan side IP, as you can see the state is showing the lan side rfc1918 address.

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                dragonfire1119 @johnpoz
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                @johnpoz It's been working and I'm streaming music now without interruption or static. So if this stays like this it was the NTOPNG being analyzed as an attacker for some reason. Is there any way to whitelist NTOPNG?

                Update: The Unifi Messages have stopped saying disconnected from Netgate.

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @dragonfire1119
                  last edited by johnpoz

                  Well when you have some time, we can re-enable it and go over the settings and see what could be causing the issue.

                  I will have to fire it up and refresh my memory on its features.. Use to use it all the time, outside of pfsense back in the day.. But never really needed it on home network..

                  edit: switch just got here - man is that tiny! ;)

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                    mcury @johnpoz
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                    @johnpoz man, that is a nice beer =)

                    dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                      dragonfire1119 @johnpoz
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                      @johnpoz wow, that thing is tiny! I don't think that one has POE or anything?

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @mcury
                        last edited by johnpoz

                        @mcury hehe not really my fav, but its very drinkable on a hot day that is for sure. It was on sale a few days back, $8 for a 12er - limit 2, so got 2.. And yeah have to sport the correct glassware..

                        Needed something to compare with scale, and didn't have a banana handy - hehehe.. Some of you sure will get that joke. If you hang out on the net you will.

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                        • johnpozJ
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @dragonfire1119
                          last edited by johnpoz

                          @dragonfire1119 No it can be powered by poe, but no doesn't output any poe.. Will hook it up in the morning to the controller. But damn the thing is tiny..

                          I could see how they could be handy - especially in a place where you might have some equipment but not any extra power outlets because you can power the thing via poe.

                          edit: Well got it adopted and updated its firmware. It sees pfsense on the vlan its currently on.. And it sees the mac of switch its connected my sg300-28

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                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @johnpoz
                            last edited by johnpoz

                            Ok - switch has been online for a few hours now.. Since last night. And am seeing these disconnection notices.. This doesn't make a lot of sense.. Clearly the switch didn't freaking go down.. And if the connection did go down - then where is the notification that pfsense went down? They are connected via the same wire, the uplink to my sg300-28

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                            Ok I think this is related to the "trunk" or all profile.. It is seeing the sg300 internal mac.. And this is most likely being seen on both "networks" from unifi point of view.. Is so that is just shit show on unifi part. Going to change the port on sg300 back to access with only 1 untagged vlan being sent to the unifi switch and see if these go away..

                            Ok switched at say 9:17 - lets see if see any more of those disconnects after that timestamp

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                              Yeah it has to be the same MAC address appearing in different segments.

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                              • johnpozJ
                                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @stephenw10
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                                @stephenw10 yeah - what a shit show from unifi.. Its only been like 15 minutes, but since I changed to only send 1 vlan (untagged) down that link no more alerts.

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                                  mcury @johnpoz
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                                  Isn't that switch port-based VLANs only?

                                  dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @mcury
                                    last edited by johnpoz

                                    @mcury - sort of.. The uplink can only be what they call the "all" profile.. So you can not limit on the switch what vlans are allowed. But I can for sure limit what vlans can be sent to the switch. And there is a native vlan (untagged) and then tagged vlans..

                                    You can then only put ports on the mini in 1 specific vlan, or the "all" profile..

                                    I have no devices actually connected to the thing - its just connected to the network via the 1 port set as "all" profile.

                                    profile.jpg

                                    switch.jpg

                                    You can see from the profile that some of the vlans are tagged, shows their ID.. And there is the native untagged network.

                                    Yup when I only sent it 1 vlan worth of traffic.. no disconnects for over an hour, as soon I allowed more vlans down the connection from my upstream cisco - it starts showing disconnecting back and forth between the untagged wlan and the lan which is tagged with ID 9.. Stupid log spam to what it amounts to it seems like.. I will have to put a client on the thing and see if it shows it disconnecting when its only in 1 vlan that is assigned to the port its connected to on the mini.

                                    So far from the few hours play time - I couldn't recommend their switches to anyone.. Even if it works the log spam is horrible. And you can not get any sort of reliable data on uptime, etc. since that resets every time it shows that connection switching.. WTF??

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                                      mcury @johnpoz
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                                      @johnpoz Since I have a unifi controller up and running, I thought about buying one of these switches, but not sure anymore..

                                      So, basically you have the access ports (you can have up to 4 VLANs), and one uplink with the "all" profile.. And that is it, to expand the network only unmannaged switches are allowed..

                                      dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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                                      • johnpozJ
                                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @mcury
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                                        @mcury Yeah I wouldn't buy it from my experience so far.. So I am almost sure yesterday I saw that I could apply a port in the switch to a vlan only network I created.. But I just updated controller and that seems to be gone. There is no way it seems to put a port any any specific vlan - wtf??

                                        Let me roll back to .51 of the controller.. I always take a snapshot before update..

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                                          mcury @johnpoz
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                                          @johnpoz Strange, this was not mentioned in the improvements section of the .52 release

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                                          • johnpozJ
                                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @mcury
                                            last edited by johnpoz

                                            So it was me playing with the switch profiles.. You have to create the networks as vlan only, and can not create them in the profiles section..

                                            Updating back to .52 now... Guess if you create the profile in the switch ports its "custom" and the mini can not use them... So create a vlan only network and it auto creates the profile - which the mini can use.. Once update to .52 is done will clean everything up... And will see if that will clean up the disconnects?? I doubt it since its using the all profile..

                                            edit: ok all fixed, just had to recreate the networks vlan only, and let it auto create the switchport vlans.. Now I can assign a port to one of those vlans.

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