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    Flaky PPPoE and Dynamic gateway causes stale firewall states

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    • Y
      Yoshizmo
      last edited by

      Hey guys,

      I have a pfsense installation at a site that has a pretty flaky PPPoE connection with a dynamic gateway. Whenever the PPPoE connection is re-established the WAN default gateway changes and all my asterisk trunks become UNREACHABLE until I manually clear the states.

      I know that if my IP address was dynamic and changed the firewall states would be reset. I would assume that the same would occur if my default gateway were to change, but it does not.

      Bug?
      Feature?
      Possible setting that will resolve this?

      I have tried all the firewall optimization settings and making SIP not use states, but none of that helps.

      Thanks,
      โ€“ Jascha

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Looks like it might be related to this:

        http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1629

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          Yoshizmo
          last edited by

          Yeah, I looked at that bug, it's actually complete. My problem is that the IP doesn't change, just the default gateway.

          I need to figure out how to trigger a state table reset when WAN default gateway changes.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            There are references to the gateway in the rules, and likely the states, but I had thought when PPPoE disconnected it killed all states to the old gateway.

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