Pfsense drops internet every few days
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System's been running for months just fine but in the past few weeks, at least once a day internet stops working.
The error message I get is below. All I need to do is reboot the PFSense box and it goes back immediately so I don't think this is an ISP issue.
Sep 20 07:48:47 dpinger 65172 send_interval 500ms loss_interval 2000ms time_period 60000ms report_interval 0ms data_len 1 alert_interval 1000ms latency_alarm 500ms loss_alarm 20% alarm_hold 10000ms dest_addr x.x.x.x bind_addr x.x.x.x identifier "WAN_DHCP "
Sep 20 07:48:49 dpinger 65172 WAN_DHCPX.x.x.x : Alarm latency 0us stddev 0us loss 100%
Sep 20 07:48:49 dpinger 65172 exiting on signal 15
Sep 20 07:48:50 dpinger 33302 send_interval 500ms loss_interval 2000ms time_period 60000ms report_interval 0ms data_len 1 alert_interval 1000ms latency_alarm 500ms loss_alarm 20% alarm_hold 10000ms dest_addr x.x.x.x bind_addr x.x.x.x identifier "WAN_DHCP "
Sep 20 07:48:52 dpinger 33302 WAN_DHCP x.x.x.x : Alarm latency 0us stddev 0us loss 100% -
@cheapie408 well the 100% loss shows something. The “exiting on signal 15” shows that restarted. Any loss of link at that time?
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I'll have to wait until the next time it fail to see if it logs something. That's the start of the log of the day. I haven't used any other device before this time.
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@cheapie408 said in Pfsense drops internet every few days:
... and it goes back immediately so I don't think this is an ISP issue
True, it could be as simple as "x.x.x.x " decides not to reply on ping (ICMP) anymore.
Or, as ICMP is a low priority protocol, the packets would get ditched.
The result is all the same : if ping packets don't come back, dpinger, as a default action, will 'reset' the WAN interface.You can test this situation :
Disable the monitoring action ( System > Routing > Gateways > Edit ).
If the only issue is that ping packets don't come back anymore but other traffic is flowing normally, then there is no real need to reset the interface, no need to rebuild the connection.Another possible solution : pick another IP to ping .. ?!
