New PPPoE backend, some feedback
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You're setting that in the PPP settings on the interface?
Interesting. That's an advanced setting that only applies to mpd5. It's hidden on the ppp interfaces page but looks like it's not hidden from the assigned interface and probably should be.
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I use this setting on a pppoe connection with variable ip.
I need it to avoid the connection being reset by the ISP since I do not have a fixed IP.
On pfSense from 2.5 to 2.7.2 it worked on all versions.
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I assume you have enabled if_pppoe?
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Yes, I have enabled system/advanced /networking marked Use if_pppoe kernel module for PPPoE client.It seems like a bug in the new version 2.8
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Yes, there is a bug there. However currently the bug is that the mpd5 specific options are not hidden correctly. And that the cron-job is still set even thought the script it calls is not present when if_pppoe is enabled.
If you need this for now you should add your own cronjob. This should work:
/etc/rc.interfaces_wan_configure opt2
Where opt2 is the pppoe interface internal name.This should probably also be a feature request. Let me see here...
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The WAN interface is pppoe1 which is on igb1.
There is already a cron job with the script /var/etc/pppoe_restart_pppoe1.
If you can tell me if this is ok or if this script needs to be modified?
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That script is created to bring up mpd5 so it's not valid when using if_pppoe.
Here's a bug the covers the invalid options: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/16155
I'll open a feature request to add back the periodic reset for if_pppoe.
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Thanks for reporting.
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It probably won't be in 2.8 but it's a pretty simple feature. I'd expect it could be added via system patches after release.
Or you can still just add the cronjob manually.
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The thing is I don't know how to manually make the script to put in cron.
If you can kindly give me a working example that would be great and would solve the problem permanently.
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Edit the cronjob and change the command to:
/etc/rc.interfaces_wan_configure opt2Where opt2 is the internal interface name for your pppoe interface. If that's actually WAN then use
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@stephenw10 said in New PPPoE backend, some feedback:
/etc/rc.interfaces_wan_configure
I'll ask something else while we're at it...
Regarding manually starting and stopping the WAN interface, which is PPPoE — what's the proper way to do it? Especially with the new backend...
/etc/rc.linkup stop wan
/etc/rc.linkup start wanOr is there something newer now?
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It worked fine.
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That should work. There's nothing newer I'm aware of. Because it's now a regular interface (mostly) you should be able to do regular interface things with it. If you want/need to.
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Is there a definitive list of PPPoE performance tweaks that should be removed before using if_pppoe?
If so, it may be worth adding it to Jim's article too.
Apologies if it exists somewhere but I did look... and clearly I have forgotten all the tweaks I did apply to try and get the best PPPoE performance on the current backend.
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Does anyone have packet loss on a new backend? The connection is not interrupted just loss of packets, about 5%, once a day or so.
MONITOR: WAN_PPPOE has packet lossThis could be something on isp or on my side also, because I haven't seen this before. IDK...
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Not seen any significant loss here. Been solid since I switched both my edge PPPoE links to it:
And I'd been running it for months before that on one WAN in 25.03.
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@RobbieTT said in New PPPoE backend, some feedback:
Is there a definitive list of PPPoE performance tweaks that should be removed before using if_pppoe?
There isn't. The testing we did though was without any of the previous pppoe tweaks AFAIK. So the default sysctls only.
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@stephenw10 said in New PPPoE backend, some feedback:
@RobbieTT said in New PPPoE backend, some feedback:
Is there a definitive list of PPPoE performance tweaks that should be removed before using if_pppoe?
There isn't. The testing we did though was without any of the previous pppoe tweaks AFAIK. So the default sysctls only.
I know, I just need a nudge on what I now need to remove (eg deleting the top entry for a start):
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I think only the net.isr.dispatch value there is non-default.
Default values I see here are:
Tunable Name Description Value net.inet.ip.portrange.first 1024 net.inet.tcp.blackhole Do not send RST on segments to closed ports 2 net.inet.udp.blackhole Do not send port unreachables for refused connects 1 net.inet.ip.random_id Assign random ip_id values 1 net.inet.tcp.drop_synfin Drop TCP packets with SYN+FIN set 1 net.inet.ip.redirect Enable sending IP redirects 1 net.inet6.ip6.redirect Send ICMPv6 redirects for unforwardable IPv6 packets 1 net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr Create RFC3041 temporary addresses for autoconfigured addresses 0 net.inet6.ip6.prefer_tempaddr Prefer RFC3041 temporary addresses in source address selection 0 net.inet.tcp.syncookies Use TCP SYN cookies if the syncache overflows 1 net.inet.tcp.recvspace Initial receive socket buffer size 65228 net.inet.tcp.sendspace Initial send socket buffer size 65228 net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack Delay ACK to try and piggyback it onto a data packet 0 net.inet.udp.maxdgram Maximum outgoing UDP datagram size 57344 net.link.bridge.pfil_onlyip Only pass IP packets when pfil is enabled 0 net.link.bridge.pfil_member Packet filter on the member interface 1 net.link.bridge.pfil_bridge Packet filter on the bridge interface 0 net.link.tap.user_open Enable legacy devfs interface creation for all users 1 net.link.vlan.mtag_pcp Retain VLAN PCP information as packets are passed up the stack 1 kern.randompid Random PID modulus. Special values: 0: disable, 1: choose random value 347 net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen Maximum size of the IP input queue 1000 hw.syscons.kbd_reboot enable keyboard reboot 0 net.inet.tcp.log_debug Log errors caused by incoming TCP segments 0 net.inet.tcp.tso Enable TCP Segmentation Offload 1 net.inet.icmp.icmplim Maximum number of ICMP responses per second 0 vfs.read_max Cluster read-ahead max block count 32 kern.ipc.maxsockbuf Maximum socket buffer size 4262144 net.inet.ip.process_options Enable IP options processing ([LS]SRR, RR, TS) 0 kern.random.harvest.mask Entropy harvesting mask 351 net.route.netisr_maxqlen maximum routing socket dispatch queue length 1024 net.inet.udp.checksum compute udp checksum 1 net.inet.icmp.reply_from_interface ICMP reply from incoming interface for non-local packets 1 net.inet6.ip6.rfc6204w3 Accept the default router list from ICMPv6 RA messages even when packet forwarding is enabled 1 net.key.preferred_oldsa 0 net.inet.carp.senderr_demotion_factor Send error demotion factor adjustment 0 net.pfsync.carp_demotion_factor pfsync's CARP demotion factor adjustment 0 net.raw.recvspace 65536 net.raw.sendspace 65536 net.inet.raw.recvspace Maximum space for incoming raw IP datagrams 131072 net.inet.raw.maxdgram Maximum outgoing raw IP datagram size 131072 kern.corefile Process corefile name format string /root/%N.core kern.crypto.iimb.enable_aescbc 1 kern.crypto.iimb.enable_multiq 1 kern.crypto.iimb.use_task 0 kern.crypto.iimb.arch auto kern.crypto.iimb.prefetch 1 kern.crypto.iimb.max_jobs 256Urgh, formatting fail!
