Gateway shows as being down, but isn't.
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Hi,
Sometimes my pfSense box shows that a gateway is down, even though the RTT shows a healthy 32ms but the packet loss shows 100%. I know the gateway is up because if I connect my laptop to the back of the DSL modem that pfSense connects to, I get connectivity to the internet without any problems. Consquently, that gateway is taken out of the routing group.
Please see attached image. Look at GATEWAYA – thats the one showing being down but with 32ms or so RTT.
Rizwan
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turn off gateway ip monitoring on the WAN interface, see if that helps.
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I have turned off gateway monitoring and things start working again, but I need to keep the gateway monitoring on.
I have found that if the gateway goes down and comes back up pfSense still thinks its down. The only way I can get it to work is change the Monitor IP address on the gateways screen, save / apply the setting, and then change it back, save / apply and it automagically starts working again, until the gateway is either down or rebooted later. I constantly have to massage this setting.
I have tried many differnet Monitor IP addresses. I've tried 4.2.2.1, 8.8.8.8 and many others. Same behavior.
Is this an issue others are experiencing too?
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I am having the exact same problem, right down to your workaround with changing the monitor ip and it showing online again.
Were you ever able to find a better solution?
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Is the monitoring IP going down or blacklisting you temporarily due to high traffic?
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The monitor ip is set to 8.8.8.8 right now, so I doubt its blacklisting me, and it's not being blacklisted by anything on my end, as far as I can tell.
The gateway status appears to be showing an accurate RTT, but it also shows offline and 100% loss. The gateway still works fine and my traffic is still sent over it, but it shows offline and 100% loss.
Restarting the apinger service seems to fix it temporarily, but it ends up showing offline again at some point.
It's not a big issue for me since it's not in a gateway group like the OP's, I'm just curious as to what's causing it more than anything.
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I am having the exact same problem, right down to your workaround with changing the monitor ip and it showing online again.
Were you ever able to find a better solution?
Same here, same exact problem with Gateway monitoring.
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apinger is broken. It does all sorts of nonsense. It's pretty unthinkable that they don't do a 2.1.6 to fix it. Wait for 2.2 they say.
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apinger is broken. It does all sorts of nonsense. It's pretty unthinkable that they don't do a 2.1.6 to fix it. Wait for 2.2 they say.
Hello,
any news about that? We're now on 2.2.4 but the problem still exists.
Apinger works perfectly when a gateway goes down and the traffic is correctly routed to the other one; but when the gateway comes up apinger does not do the "failback" until i don't manually restart the process…. -
any news about that? We're now on 2.2.4 but the problem still exists.
No, no news at all… apinger is still the same unfixable garbage code.
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Ok, for now i've set a workaround cron task running every 15 minutes:
/usr/bin/killall -9 apinger && /usr/local/sbin/apinger -c /var/etc/apinger.conf
Thanks,
Edoardo
