Wan shuts down
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Please bare with me as I am new to this software. I have a dell 2640 with dual 1gb nic.
I have connected my wan port with a straight through cable from wan to my dsl - speedtouch modem
my lan is connected to a switch.
lan works fine, however on the wan side, the card turns on, then off, then on etc.
my isp has dhcp with the wan card is configured for, i login to my isp, i do see the mac address for the card, and obtain the static ip.
card still turns off and on, i changed the canle to a crossover, still nothing…....
i have tried everything - including banging my head against the wall---lolany ideas on this issue would be muchly appreciated
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Is your modem on demand dial instead of always connected?
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adsl is always on
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however on the wan side, the card turns on, then off, then on etc.
Please explain this - do you mean the pfSense log reports "Link up", "Link down", "Link up" etc on the pfSense WAN interface?
Is the modem acting as a modem only or a modem-router? If its a modem only you should probably be using PPPoE on your WAN link rather than DHCP.
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well after many days of beating my head against the wall I discovered that my issues were related to on board nic cards.
as soon as i installed the 2 pci nic cards, I was all up and running in 5 mins.I want to thank all that assisted me in resloving this issue.
:)