Setting a different monitoring IP.
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Re: Gateway offline
Setting a different Monitoring IP was the remedy to my packet loss and gateway offline.
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@cometphoton yeah sometimes if just using the normal gateway, it could have low ping amount thresholds, or just dropping ping when its busy.. icmp is the first to get dropped if a device is busy..
I had sim issues were was seeing packet loss to gateway, changed the monitoring to the next hop in the trace and packet loss went away in the monitoring.. I knew it wasn't actual packet loss because was seeing none to anything else I tested on the internet.
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@johnpoz said in Setting a different monitoring IP.:
the next hop in the trace
what is the next hop in the trace. I just changed mine to cloudflair ip. Is this ok
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@cometphoton said in Setting a different monitoring IP.:
I just changed mine to cloudflair ip. Is this ok
I assume you mean 1.1.1.1? Usually that's fine. I use that here on a few systems. However be aware that Cloudflare is under no obligation to reply to pings at that IP. They could just stop replying.
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@cometphoton said in Setting a different monitoring IP.:
what is the next hop in the trace.
This is normally router inside your isp, example
So first hop is my router, pfsense. 2nd is first hit into my isp, then 3rd is the next hop - still my isp.. So while normally dpinger would be pinging 2nd in this trace from a client because that is pfsense gateway. But change it to 3rd and now your just pinging another device in your isp.
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@cometphoton said in Setting a different monitoring IP.:
what is the next hop in the trace.
I just did a traceroute to Google and picked the first address that worked.
