WAN - DHCP Error ???

[bearhntr]

This makes no sense --- been seeing this for 3 days now. I have rebooted modem (unplugged for 20 minutes) and re-plugged then rebooted pfSense. Still seeing this - but Internet and all things in the home are working. Even the DDNS setup for CloudFlare is green and showing a valid address.

Any Ideas?

[rcoleman-netgate]

@bearhntr Go to System->Routing

Edit WAN_DHCP

Specify a monitoring IP for the WAN. I recommend a DNS server as they'll almost always reply.

Blank, the default, uses your ISP gateway which is likely blocking the regular pings as a DoS attack.

[bearhntr]

@rcoleman-netgate

Do you mean I need to adjust {Arrow} or {Circle} ??

[rcoleman-netgate]

@bearhntr The monitor IP value.

[bearhntr]

@rcoleman-netgate

Should I put an IP Address in there from my ISP, or something like 8.8.8.8 (Google) or maybe 1.1.1.1 (CloudFlare)? or does it really matter?

[SteveITS]

@bearhntr Any pingable IP will work. He's suggesting not your ISP router/modem but something further up the chain.

[rcoleman-netgate]

@steveits said in WAN - DHCP Error ???:

He's suggesting not your ISP router/modem but something further up the chain

Precisely. If you get it outside of the ISP's network you can ID the issue as an ISP one because the ISP gateway might still ping when they're seeing a bigger outage.

[bearhntr]

@steveits

Thank You -- I have set it to 1.1.1.1. (CloudFlare) - and it appears to have made the red go 'bye-byez'