WAN periodically Rebooting,.. Take Two
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Re: WAN periodically Rebooting
Just to continue my sad,. ( some might say laborious ) story..
[ its been a while since my last post,.. but some life etc problems have got in the way,.. so here are current ongoing actions ]
I am still getting periodic reboots,.. I have tried running:-
with the Draytek on pure modem mode, using pfsense to handle the connection and security etc,... This was no better,.. than any other config so far,.. still dropping connection etc, with a 50+/10MBps up/download speed,...
After some consideration,.. and conflict,.. 'I bit the bullet',.. and configured the Draytek,.. and the router/firewall everything,.. reconfigured all my bindings,.. so the network still worked,....
And Yes the configure worked for a while,. ( few days ),.. but then got into the reconnecting cycle,.. after nearly a week I grew tired on the Draytek,.. as it was not very good and reconnecting,.. or sometimes recognising there was no IP connectinon to the WAN,... ( requiring a physical reboot ),.. so reverted back to pfsense with the old modem,.. as it at least recognised there was no WAN connection,.. and quickly re-established a good connection.
Speeds whilst on Draytek was still only achieving 50+/10MBps,.. even though the DSL status showed 80/28MBps up/down,.. but they are just dreamy speeds to me ATM,...
As it stands I think I will have to go back to BT,.. and ask for another visit , even though on their last visit they said all was OK,.. and within spec.
Unless anyone else has some ideas,... but I am running low on the inspiration front now..
I may even look at fibre (FTTP) as an option,.. so I can then dispense with the current BT h/w in the exchange,..
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@diyhouse said in WAN periodically Rebooting,.. Take Two:
And Yes the configure worked for a while,. ( few days ),.. but then got into the reconnecting cycle,.. after nearly a week I grew tired on the Draytek,.. as it was not very good and reconnecting,.. or sometimes recognising there was no IP connection to the WAN,... ( requiring a physical reboot ),
Be ware : if your upstream ( Draytek, whatever) router / modem / whatever can't establish a connection over whatever you use as an ISP connection, then pfSense, or any other device you've hookup up behind this Draytec (or other) can't do any better.
You didn't mention, so I'll do : when you activate your Draytek in router mode, what is network IP range of it's LAN ?
If its 192.168.1.x/24, your pfSense WAN using the good old DHCP will obtain a 192.168.1.y/24 IP.
This means you can not use 192.168.1.1/24 on the pfSense LAN !
Two options :
Change the pfSense LAN settings, like for example 192.168.2.1/24 - and the check pfSense DHCP LAN server side also (open the page, and hit Save).
Or
Change the Draytek LAN settings to use, for example, dono : 192.168.10.1/24 - so now the pfSense WAN IP will be 192.168.10.z/24 and you can keep the pfSense LAN default settings.@diyhouse said in WAN periodically Rebooting,.. Take Two:
I may even look at fibre (FTTP) as an option
Fiber can't be an option.
Normally, its fiber, and the rest is "optional". -
@Gertjan
Sorry,.. for my lack of clarity,.. when I transferred to the Draytek router config,.. PfSense was ( out of the picture,.. ie not connected ),.. I dutifully created the Draytek with the same ip as PfSense,.. ( PfSense not connected , so no conflict ) and created everything else as per my PfSense config,.. ( yes a real pain for the Binds I had in PfSense )...
The crucial thing here is as per previous correspondence is the Draytek is no better at maintaining an internet connection than Pfsense is,.. ( in fact its probably worse, as it does not reconnect very intelligently)...
So hence I am still at the drawing board... -
Ok, so to be clear the WAN is disconnecting, nothing is actually rebooting?
It really sounds like a line issue or some upstream fault TBH.
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@stephenw10 said in WAN periodically Rebooting,.. Take Two:
nothing is actually rebooting
Correct, WAN disconnects,.. it can then take a Draytek reboot,.. before 'normal service is resumed,.. as they say.
