Bandwidth Limit causing Internet dropout

[Chooks]

Hello, hoping someone can give me advice on this.

I have pfsense set up with bandwidth limit through traffic shaper. It used to work before and I just removed it because we had a slow connection. Now that I just recently set it up, the internet connection drops. Same goes for when I set up a block access to the internet for a group of IPs (through Alias).

Another thing, what could I be missing where I can't ping an IP but can access the shared files on it. I have multiple networks in my pfsense.

[SteveITS]

Do you have captive portal enabled? There's a patch for that in the System Patches package. (see various other threads)

re: can't ping, usually:

• ICMP not allowed in firewall between networks
• ICMP not allowed by target host's firewall (common if outside its subnet)

[Chooks]

@steveits Yes, I do have Captive Portals running but on a different network port. Does that cause a problem? Lately we've also been experiencing drops in our internet connection even without the bandwidth limit.

@steveits said in Bandwidth Limit causing Internet dropout:

re: can't ping, usually:

ICMP not allowed in firewall between networks
ICMP not allowed by target host's firewall (common if outside its subnet)

Haven't done that yet, but I have learned from watching Tom from Lawrence System's video about ICMP.

Thanks for your answer

[Chooks]

@steveits

@steveits said in Bandwidth Limit causing Internet dropout:

Do you have captive portal enabled? There's a patch for that in the System Patches package. (see various other threads)

I don't quite get what you mean here. I am still searching for answers.

[SteveITS]

@chooks https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/12834
-> https://forum.netgate.com/topic/169879/udp-icmp-is-not-working-after-upgrade-to-2-6-0

Install the System Patches package:

It will be fixed in 22.05: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/22-05.html#captive-portal

[Chooks]

@steveits I've already installed the patches thanks to you.

I still need to reboot pfsense thought since there are people using it currently so I'll know if its working after the reboot.

[Chooks]

@steveits the error is still there. When I enable the bandwidth limit, all the other computer lose internet connection.

[codym]

Same issue here, I have a totally unrelated interface with a 40 Mbps traffic shaper on upload and download, whenever I enable captive portal on an unrelated interface and enable per user bandwidth limitation any other interfaces with a traffic shaper completely lose internet. What is happening here?