WiFi access point problem
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Hi all
I got two providers in france.
One is ADSL (Free, around 8Mb) and works very well behind my pfsense gw.
My lan is composed of three 5 ports gigabit switches and one WiFi Access point.
(To be honest it is not really an access point but a router used only on its lan side, dhcp, nat, etc disabled)
My laptop connect thru the WiFi AP and get its IP from pfsense dhcp and acces Internet and local servers very well.Oneother provider is Cable (Numericable, around 30 Mb).
All my wired devices works very well to access wifi laptop, eachothers or internet.
But WiFi laptop can not reach internet (very slow, time out, etc …) whereas they can connect local servers.So I can configure failover from cable to adsl for all my wired devices and from adsl to cable for all other.
But if adsl goes down laptops does not have internet.Any idea what occures?
Other interresting thing : if I wire connect my laptop to the builtin switch of the WiFi router used as an accesspoint, Everything goes well.
I'm a bit lost here.
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From what you say it sounds like your WiFi box is providing its own IP addresses and nat'ing onto your LAN. If you can, configure the WiFi box to bridge onto the LAN and use the same DHCP server as the main LAN.
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From what you say it sounds like your WiFi box is providing its own IP addresses and nat'ing onto your LAN. If you can, configure the WiFi box to bridge onto the LAN and use the same DHCP server as the main LAN.
I'm not sure to understand your answer.
let I do a schema:–-- Free ADSL ---- 3com NIC 10/100 -----------|------------|
|pfsense box |-----realteak 10/100/1000 ----
---- Numericable Docsys ---- 3com NIX 10/100---|------------| |
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| Gigabit 5 ports switch |--|
NAS GB -----------| | |
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| Gigabit 5 ports switch |--| |
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XBOX 360 -----| |--- Mediacenter PC |
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| Gigabit 5 ports switch |--|
Linksys WRRT54GX -----| |--- VoIP siemens phoneConf of linksys 1 :
linksys connected thru one of LAN ports to the switch,
NAT disabled
DHCP disabled
WAN configured as DHCP (but not connected)
LAN IP of router physically set to one of my local lan IPs.Conf linksys 2:
linksys connected thru wan port to the switch,
NAT enabled
firewall off
DHCP enabled for another local subnet different than LAN one.Conf one and two works well when pfsense connected to Free.
Conf one and two have same issue when pfsense connected to numericable :
- all devices physically connected access internet and goes fine
- all wifi devices can resolve name (nslookup OK) and access local devices, BUT ping and internet access outside LAN timeout most of the time.I suspect my numericable provider to have a filter as it seems the wifi devices works as my connection works when my modem is not recognized by them and have got limited access.
Any idea?
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What is the IP configuration of your media centre PC? (IP address, net mask, gateway address, DNS address(es)
What is the IP configuration of a wireless device?
I assume your WRT54GX is not connected to the internet. Is this correct? (as it is connected to the LAN side of your pdSense box).
Regards Pootle
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What is the IP configuration of your media centre PC? (IP address, net mask, gateway address, DNS address(es)
What is the IP configuration of a wireless device?
I assume your WRT54GX is not connected to the internet. Is this correct? (as it is connected to the LAN side of your pdSense box).
Regards Pootle
in conf 1:
My mediacenter Pc is configured with dhcp (static IP defined in dhcp server of pfsense).
My wifi laptop get its dhcp lease thru the pfsense dhcp (static IP defined in dhcp server of pfsense)
Wan port of wrt54SX is not connected to anything.in conf 2:
My mediacenter Pc is configured with dhcp (static IP defined in dhcp server of pfsense).
My WRT54GX is connected to my pfsense lan thru its wan interface and get a static IP defined in dhcp server of pfsense
My laptop gets its IP from the WRT54GX.Both configurations give me the same results.
I prefer conf 1 as I have one less routing so one less latency impact.The fact is that packets coming from Wifi laptopto the lan NIC of pfsense are not sent to my numericable WAN equally as is sent a packet coming from my PC mediacenter (or coming from the same laptop wire connected to any of the three switches in 100Mb).
'Free ISP' take care of both kind of packets whereas numericable does not.