Verizon FIOS with Unifi Switch pfSense
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I have Verizon FIOS coming into my house directly from the ONT via Ethernet to a Unifi Switch that has that port on VLAN 666. I then have pfSense running in Proxmox and have 2 interface one that is on a Unifi Trunk interface and the tagging is done in Proxmox not the switch. FIOS pickups the interface for like 5ish minutes and my network runs fine and then the packet drop going to 100% and I loose internet.
Work around, I have the FIOS ethernet go directly into the Proxmox host into another interface that I then connect into the pfSense VM on the same interface as the VLAN interface (change the bridge and remove the vlan) and everything works fine. On the pfSense FIOS interface (with or without the VLAN), I always use the same MAC address, it's set in Proxmox and I can verify that FIOS is getting that MAC and pfSense can see that MAC.
I am trying to move to this method so that I can learn more about pfSense HA (not HAProxy) and alternatively Proxmox HA. I know these are two vastly different setups but the goal is to have my Proxmox hosts have access to FIOS through the Unifi switch vlan that only those devices are tagged for.
I am up and running right now but would really like to get it working so that if I have to migrate the VM to another Proxmox node, I can without moving the ethernet and setting up a new bridge.
I've done this with my 5G backup connection and it works perfectly. I'm guessing it's something regarding how FIOS handles the DHCP but not sure why it drops after 5 minutes.