[SOLVED] New install, client losing connectivity to pfsense
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I am having a really frustrating problem here. Can't figure it out.
I have a brand new install of pfSense on an IBM eserver here is the setup:Comcast -> pfSense -> Gigabit Switch -> Wired Clients
-> Airport Extreme (directly wired to switch)
-> Airport Express (directly wired to switch)
-> Airport Express (directly wired to switch) -> Macbook (wirelessly connected)
-> Macbook (wirelessly connected)every now and then 1 of the macbooks will lose connection to 192.168.1.1 (pfsense). I know it loses connection to that because I can't ping it from the macbook, I just get "host is down". But, I can connect to other computers on the network. For instance, I can remote into my xserve and then get to the internet or ping 192.168.1.1 just fine from the xserve, so the internet is not down.
After about 20 minutes the macbook will come back online and i can ping pfsense and then in turn go online just fine.I was thinking that the macbooks IP was getting automatically banned or something causing it to be denied connectivity to pfsense, but I can't find anything in the logs to show this.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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no help?
maybe I wrote too much…
Try this:
Does pfsense do any kind of auto banning of LAN IP's? and if so, where would the logs be for that?
Thanks.
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I think I figured it out…
The problem was with Norton ... (don't ask... installed as a test a couple years ago, never uninstalled)
It was seeing the ARP requests from pfsense when I would change access points and marking them as ARP poisoning. So then I think it would block all access to 192.168.1.1 which would obviously block my access to the internet... but not to other computers on my network...So, if you have a mac and norton, you have to turn off Vulnerability Protection, and really just uninstall norton all together.