QNAP pfSense dropout
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@JonathanLee possibly a going to sleep issue but I have no hibernation turned on. Will see if I can implement your approach.
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@ppal said in QNAP pfSense dropout:
pfSense not playing nicely with Bigpond
Hmm, waaay back in the day there were some special options for bigpond. Anything logged in dhcp?
Does a pcap show it requesting leases? ARPing for stuff?
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@stephenw10
Hi Stephen,Thank you for your suggestions earlier. I’ll revisit pfSense after completing my testing with OPNSense. I noticed that another user had a similar issue (https://forum.netgate.com/topic/169400/pfsense-ipv6-with-telstra-nbn), but it seems they didn’t receive much assistance on the forum.
Apparently, there’s a detailed 32-step guide to get IPv6 working: https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/pfsense_ipv6_telstra.
For now, even having IPv4 running reliably would be a great starting point!
Thanks again for your insights.
Best regards,
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Hmm, I'm never sure how similar services are between providers on NBN. That seems to be IPv6 specific though and you stopped seeing all connectivity.
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@stephenw10 Hi
I have swapped the LAN and WAN ports. What would be the best package to monitor the connections.
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It should be detected and logged by the gateway monitoring anyway without a package.
However you can run something like mytraceroute on the firewall to see where it fails. Or something smokeping on a client behind the firewall.
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@stephenw10 I found this https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/small-business/support/pdf/nbn-byo-%20router-guide.pdf - Looks like requires traffic shaping and requires. MTU 1500 or lower . Probably go for MTU 1492 and MSS 1452 and shape the traffic to my tier.
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Hmm, well I guess that could do it if they cut you off when you overrun your tier bandwidth.
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@stephenw10, I swapped the LAN and WAN ports, and it worked for about 7 hours. During that time, I believed the issue was resolved, but unfortunately, it locked up again with packet failures. I'll give it another try, but one would expect the shaping to be handled on their end. It's worth testing, though. Thanks for engaging.
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Mmm, it's been a while but I have seen providers that police bandwidth by just cutting connections. I don't recall seeing that for anything end user facing though.
