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    Australian NBN connection stops after random time

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      bleve @bleve
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      @bleve so I've turned the ping interval down to 1 ping every 5000ms instead of 500ms. That should reduce the unnecessary pings too.

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        biggsy
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        So you've got your pfSense box plugged directly into the NBN NTD?

        If you don't have any luck with the 5000ms pings, I seriously suggest that you try disabling monitoring. The reason I turned mine off was simply because of false alarms. Never worked out what triggered them but they were false.

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          bleve @biggsy
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          @biggsy said in Australian NBN connection stops after random time:

          So you've got your pfSense box plugged directly into the NBN NTD?

          Yes
          I'm not sure how else you'd do it? Or why you'd do it any other way?

          If you don't have any luck with the 5000ms pings, I seriously suggest that you try disabling monitoring. The reason I turned mine off was simply because of false alarms. Never worked out what triggered them but they were false.

          I'm certainly considering it! Thank you

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            biggsy @bleve
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            @bleve said :

            I'm not sure how else you'd do it? Or why you'd do it any other way?

            Only checking that you didn't have something else between the NTD and pfSense because you said something about the "NBN router/modem". All good.

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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @bleve
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              @bleve said in Australian NBN connection stops after random time:

              Any idea for how I can get the temp sensor to behave? I don't believe it's 27.9 degrees all the time!

              Assuming it's an Intel CPU go to Sys > Adv > Misc and set the thermal sensors to Intel Core.
              That will give you the on-die CPU sensors data. You can add the thermal sensors widget to the dashboard to view them. And they will be logged in the Status > Monitoring graphs.
              Yes that 27.9°C value is almost certainly bogus. Likely an invalid ACPI sensor location the BIOS is passing.

              Since it's only the WAN that stops it's probably not an over temperature issue but 'almost too hot to touch' is worrrying.

              Steve

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                bleve @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10 thank you, that worked a treat!

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                  bleve @bleve
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                  @bleve said in Australian NBN connection stops after random time:

                  @stephenw10 thank you, that worked a treat!

                  I popped a USB powered case fan on top of this little box, and the newly reported 52 degrees is now 35 (Celcius). Win!

                  Thank you again for your advice and assistance.

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                    bleve
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                    Followup on this, since we made the change to the service check, there's been zero outages, it's been 100% solid.
                    Also, the little USB fan I popped on top of the box, has kept the temp nice and low (mid 30's C).
                    Thank you all again for your help.

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                      crossdumb
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                      Any idea for how I can get the temp sensor to behave? I don't believe it's 27.9 degrees all the time!

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        Only way you're likely to fix that sensor is a BIOS update. Or maybe a manually applied ACPI patch if you know exactly what it should be looking at.
                        Just use the CPU on-die sensors.

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