How do I get logs for a single LAN IP to external network communication

[shinecardozo]

Connections for systems in the network get dropped intermittently when connected to PFSense. When PFense is removed there is no drop and everything works fine. Happens especially for google meet calls. Need to check where this drop is happening.

[Gertjan]

@shinecardozo

Use the perfect LAN firewall rule(s) :

Remove de activate all packages that are know to 'do something' with network traffic.

Use the Resolver's default (Netgate's choice) DNS settings.

Open the console, preferable multiple SSH sessions.
In the first session : tail -f /var/log/system.log
In the second session : tail -f /var/log/resolver.log
In the third session : tail -f /var/log/gateways.log
If you're still going strong, the fourth session : tail -f /var.log/dhcpd.log

Be smart : have your SSH clients log to a file.

and now, while keeping one eye on these logs, wait for things to 'fail'.
When it does : the logs will surely have something to say.

[shinecardozo]

Thanks a lot