Yet another ATT/NVG510 setup, complete with problems.
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So yeah.. my only options in this new area is either Dish or ATT IPDSL "Uverse". So in teh name of going big or going home, i order three 3mb ATT business lines. Since residential service wont let you get more than one. I knew PF would let me load balance them so things would be alright.
Except i was not able to do research on the crappy Moto dsl modems until i received the first one.So ive read the one post where the guy mentions he resolved his issue by manually altering his subnet and default gateway because the nvg510 gave him a /32 subnet. that did not work for me and heres why, to my knowledge.
once the att guys left, after installing my 3rd and final circuit. i directly plugged into each modem, pulling up the config page and changing the following:
local netwokr IP address
local dhcp range
firewall>ip passthrough>dhcp dynamicSo each modem has an internal lan IP address on my "established" net of 192.168.15.0 255.255.255.0 I also enabled ip passthrough and dhcp dynamic (based off the reports of how thats needed)
heres my issue, as i sit here only one of my three circuits are showing the gateway up. All three.. ALL THREE are still using the 255.255.254.0 subnet designated via dhcp dynamic under ip passthrough.
i still do not quit understand teh steps required to setup a load balanced config on pf, so for now i'm leaving that out.
I can directly uplink into all three modems, being the only device attached I am given the public IP. After which I am unable to hit anything external.. period. If i leave the PF nic plugged in, then uplink my laptop i pull an ip from the dhcp range i specified (192.168.15.50-100) and can surf effortlessly. Or at least as well at a 3mb link will allow.
My question to you guys is… would PF work and my work i mean do its fire walling job, if its wan nics had IPs on my internal subnet. If I disable IP passthrough, (as if its working correctly anyway) would pf keep me safe?
P.s. its been almost 4 years since the last bug/feature request Ive seen or found by googling to resolve this /32 issue. Is there anything being done by teh devs that anyone knows?
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Sorry i left out a part. io did attempt to plug my laptop into a router as the only device therefor pulling the external IP. I couldnt ping the gateway nor anything external. Namely googles DNS servers of 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4..
forgive my typos.. im posting this on my ipad.
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ok well i might have answered my own question. i reset pf and the modem, disabled ip passthrough. The PF wan nic got a 192.6i.15 address, i plugged my laptop into the switch where the pf lan nic is uplinking to, i pulled a dhcp ip from pfsense however i cannot ping out.
am i screwed with the idea of using pfsense in this situation? i need and want to loadbalance these lines.
i sit here not totally sure of what the actual problem is.
right nbow pf only has 1 ipdsl line pluggedd into a wan nic, and since i reset pf to defaults there is no other config confusing it. it has 1 wan and 1 lan and i still cannot get outside. WTF am i doing wrong here?