LAN connection dropping, Help. [SOLVED]
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Home network with 6-8+ devices connected
Current setup:Cable modem <– pfSense 2.0.1 --> Linksys Switch --> Local network
on VirtualBox EZXS88RpfSense is working great running on a virtual machine but I'm trying to move it to a dedicated box.
Dell Optiplex GX270 2.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
on-board Intel Gigabit ethernet
Add PCI 10/100 NICpfSense install, boot, and config is fine initially.
Once it starts, most of the time, the computers on the network will have a connection to it for a very short time, if at all. I will get about 4 pings from pfSense to the other machines and then they're gone. A couple times one machine would stay connected but the others weren't. The machines on the LAN can ping each other still. WAN connection on pfSense works fine still.I have tried 5 different NICs it it. They are a variety of Netgear, Linksys, and DLink cards (drivers: dc, rl, sis).
I don't think it is the cards though because I have swapped LAN/WAN connections so the Intel was LAN and the PCI NIC was WAN and the WAN connection worked fine but the LAN connection dropped.I have run other firewall systems on different boxes and they all worked fine.
This may not strictly a pfSense issue as another system installed on the same box seems to do the same thing.I've run out of ideas and could use some help/suggestions.
Thanks
Rob -
Well, it seems I may have fixed it.
From what I can tell it was probably the network adapter from the virtual machine may have still been enabled. I thought they had all been disabled when I shut down the VM but perhaps not.
Basically I restarted the firewall with nothing connected on the LAN and then reconnected one device at a time. Before I connected the machine that had the old firewall on VM on it I made sure it was shut down and the adapters configured properly.
Seems to be up and running properly now :)
TL;DR Probably the network seeing 2 gateways on the network and got confused.