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    IGMP proxy sometimes does not join groups

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      PDJ last edited by

      I recently switch from cable TV to IPTV, offcourse I wanted to keep using mu Pfsense box.
      Actually everything is working fine, but sometimes when I change channels on my IPTV some channels are suddenly unavailble until I restart the IGMP proxy service.

      I think, for some reason it doesn't want to join a IGMP group anymore.

      Anybody had the same issue?

      I'm running Pfsense 2.2.4-RELEASE
      upstream proxy: 224.0.0.0/4
      downstream: 192.168.66.128/28  (IPTV subnet, it has it's own subnet)

      I have installed a cron job, restarting the IGMP proxy every 2 hours, but that means we have to wait sometimes until the restart, or restart it manually, during the IGMP proxy restart, the TV channel freezes for a couple of seconds, so not an ideal sollution.

      Hopefully somebody can point me in the right direction.

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        doktornotor Banned last edited by

        I can only point you to this bug, which will probably never get fixed, since apparently compiling a newer version of such monster requires at least several years of effort…

        https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4672

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          PDJ last edited by

          Thanks.
          It was indeed a older version, so I made the modification, let's see if it improves.

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            PDJ last edited by

            That made it even worse, now I got no tv after a couple of minutes, restarting igmpproxy will get it going for a couple of minutes.
            Nothing strange in the log only

            igmpproxy[62614]: The source address 192.168.66.129 for group 239.255.255.250, is not in any valid net for upstream VIF.

            That shows very frequently.
            Strange because 224.0.0.0/4 is in the upstream config

            this is my /tmp/igmpproxy.conf

            
            ##------------------------------------------------------
            ## Enable Quickleave mode (Sends Leave instantly)
            ##------------------------------------------------------
            quickleave
            phyint re0_vlan4 upstream ratelimit 0 threshold 1
            altnet 213.75.0.0/16
            altnet 224.0.0.0/4
            
            phyint re1_vlan4 downstream ratelimit 0 threshold 1
            
            phyint re0_vlan34 disabled
            phyint re1 disabled
            phyint re1_vlan2 disabled
            
            
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              PDJ last edited by

              After some diagnostics I found out I did not have the allow options selected on all WAN rules.
              Funny is that the old igmpproxy worked without this settings (what should be a problem, because the reports from the host won't reach the igmpproxy)

              It seems everything is running fine now.

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