Weird problem....
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Pfsense newb,
I have a old supermicro server running proxmox and several containers/vm’s. Network setup is comcast router that is operating in normal router mode so the majority of the devices around the house connect to it for wifi etc. In the Comcast modem/router I have a dmz to my pfsense box/computer. its and old dell with an intel dual nic card, only used for pfsense. Then to a switch and from the switch I have my server. (eventually I will get real AP’s and everything will be behind pfsense).
Pfsense has a static address from the Comcast modem and pfsense serves dhcp to anything downstream of itself. It runs an openvpn server for remote access to my server network and 4 openvpn client connections to pia in a gateway group for certain vm’s on my server.
Every few days or so my server, the vm’s and the host proxmox will lose internet (wan). Everything behind pfsense communicates with each other fine. Everything that is not my server still has internet but the server doesnt. I can ping the pfsense box from the server and other devices behind pfsense no problem. I can also still VPN into the network. Strictly internet(wan) is un-acessable to the server.
Reboot the server, same problem. Reboot pfsense, same problem. Run the pfsense setup tool and everything starts working again. For another few days.
Any help would be great!
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I would be looking at the default route. With a bunch of OpenVPN clients on the box like that you will have multiple gateways. Unless you have set a default gateway specifically, which you should, then it can change for anything that is not policy routed.
Make sure WAN_DHCP is set as the default gateway and not automatic in Sys > Routing.
Steve
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Don't know how to do pictures but the Wan gateway is set as default for ipv4 and none for ipv6.
I've tried to disable ipv6 on everything to not complicate things while I'm learning
Thanks!
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Then try to pin down exactly what is failing when it happens.
Is it a DNS probem?
Is it a routing problem?
Is traffic being blocked?
Steve
