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@thondwe Update: Put a switch in between ONT and pfsense box (Protectli) and touching wood/crossing fingers it's been running fine for 3 days so far.
Possible theories
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Dodgy plug at pfsense end - seems unlikely for intermittent fault with no packets being dropped?
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ONT and pfsense has a issue with EEE/802.3az power management? Digging through other threads and some official pfsense documentation it seems disabling EEE for the Intel igb driver cards is recommended. Most drop outs have occurred late evening (bed time for the kids) so possible EEE doing it's thing enough to drop connection? Anyway switch doesn't have EEE so disables EEE for both devices. Can't confirm that EEE is enabled by default for pfsense - should be a command to check but don't know what it is.
Can't find any docs about the ONT (BT Nokia) to confirm it supports EEE but would not be surprised - but SmartHub 6 doesn't seem to have 802.3az as a feature and perhaps it's not that common for it to be enabled/available on home routers?
Waiting to see if things carry on working reliably!
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It could also be that the switch-ONT link is still flapping but pfSense doesn't see that any longer so the problem is no longer causing the same sort of issues.
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@stephenw10 Guess I need to prove it - assuming I get a few more days without incident, there are some settings to disable EEE which I'll try with the old wiring setup and see if that's stable.
Problem is that I've had many months of stability in the past - so unless it shows an incident pretty quick I may not know.
FYI - seems that this site may describe the innards of the ONTs - it's in a BT Openreach branded box but otherwise all the lights and sockets match.
Paul
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