Can't figure out why a few workstations are dropping packets
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If I ping 8.8.8.8 on an indefinite ping, I'll receive Timed Out errors every 2-3 attempts, sometimes for long stretches of time. I can ping other devices on the respective subnets with no packet loss at all.
What about the pfSense VLAN interface? What about your ISP next-hop?
I would concentrate on one of the most consistently-failing devices and check everything (everything) again.
Is all your switching gear VLAN-capable or at least on untagged edge ports? No attempt at putting tagged traffic through unmanaged devices?
Everything configured to auto-negotiate? No hard-set 100-full in the switch ports or edge devices anywhere?
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If I ping 8.8.8.8 on an indefinite ping, I'll receive Timed Out errors every 2-3 attempts, sometimes for long stretches of time. I can ping other devices on the respective subnets with no packet loss at all.
What about the pfSense VLAN interface? What about your ISP next-hop?
I would concentrate on one of the most consistently-failing devices and check everything (everything) again.
Is all your switching gear VLAN-capable or at least on untagged edge ports? No attempt at putting tagged traffic through unmanaged devices?
Everything configured to auto-negotiate? No hard-set 100-full in the switch ports or edge devices anywhere?
I can ping the pfSense VLAN interface with no packet loss. I can ping other devices on the VLAN subnet with no packet loss. I can RDP into my functioning workstation from the malfunctioning workstation, but I can't RDP into the malfunctioning workstation from the functioning workstation.
The managed switch that's between the pfSense router and the workstations is VLAN-capable. All of the ports are untagged with the exception of the ports that connect to the router and APs. I have no tagged traffic going through unmanaged devices.
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What about your ISP next-hop?
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What about your ISP next-hop?
Sorry, I can ping ISP next-hop with no packet loss as well. I hope this is what you're asking for.
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I would say the next call is to your ISP then.
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I would say the next call is to your ISP then.
Thanks for all of your help so far! I've verified with the ISP that my settings are correct. I've also moved the pfsense router behind an unmanaged switch and set up a separate router on the unmanaged switch. I've connected the problematic PCs to this router and they're working fine. This would rule out an ISP issue, correct?
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I don't see how you think that if you can ping the ISP next hop with no problem but get packet loss to 8.8.8.8 that it's not an ISP/internet problem.
Or there's a piece missing in your description somewhere. Like I said before, take a known-problem host and check everything top to bottom in the path from it out to the internet.
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These issues only starting happening when we moved to the new pfsense setup. The reason I don't believe it's an ISP issue is because when the same devices are on a separate router on the same modem, we're not having issues. I'll will certainly do as you suggest and recheck everything.
There probably is something missing in my description, I just don't know what.
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if you're using win7, use pathping to get a bunch of samples for a trace route. See where the loss is starting.
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Sounds like a Gateway or DNS problem. If you connect to another router all is running fine as you described
is this right? Then I really thing you should search in the DNS direction at first.