Re: [pfSense] Client-Side 1:1 NAT for IP address conflicts w/ VPN

2014-12-09 Thread Chris L
On Dec 9, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Karl Fife wrote: > In the wild, I'm seeing a an increasing number of crappy consumer/ISP > routers with subnets that conflict with ours (10../8). Comcast appears > to be a common offender, curiously allocating the largest private subnet > to their smallest customers.

[pfSense] Client-Side 1:1 NAT for IP address conflicts w/ VPN

2014-12-09 Thread Karl Fife
In the wild, I'm seeing a an increasing number of crappy consumer/ISP routers with subnets that conflict with ours (10../8). Comcast appears to be a common offender, curiously allocating the largest private subnet to their smallest customers. Of course this breaks VPN due to address ambiguity/con

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Chris L
On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Wed 10 Dec 2014 07:39:36 NZDT +1300, Ryan Clough wrote: > >> I, too, am using aliases which do not retain domain names or IP addresses. > > I opened https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4087 > > What happens is that a rule reload, which ca

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Wed 10 Dec 2014 07:39:36 NZDT +1300, Ryan Clough wrote: > I, too, am using aliases which do not retain domain names or IP addresses. I opened https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4087 What happens is that a rule reload, which can be triggered by many things e.g. interface yoyo (see WAN gw) or a

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Chris L
On Dec 9, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Is this why gateway monitoring is active by default? I'd have guessed > most pfsense installs to be single WAN. What would gw monitoring be > useful for then? Nothing could be done about the Internet going > offline. It’s nice to have the RRD

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Wed 10 Dec 2014 01:30:49 NZDT +1300, Chris Bagnall wrote: Yes I was wondering about (basically useless) rate limiting too. I used the ISP's web server. Or use one of the top 10 companies' one, or one of the big CDNs. For single WAN pinging 1/s doesn't quite make sense to me either so I increase

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 9/12/14 12:24 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I found the problem. My ISP changed the WAN gateway to be mostly non-responsive to pings. But only mostly, so pfsense plays yoyo with it. Funny you should mention that. I've seen similar on a few of our pfSense deployments of late, with several diffe

Re: [pfSense] Aliases are auto-deleted

2014-12-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
I found the problem. My ISP changed the WAN gateway to be mostly non-responsive to pings. But only mostly, so pfsense plays yoyo with it. Aliases containing FQDN entries are removed from pf tables (pfctl -T show -t aliasname) at the start of any rule or alias change, related to the alias with FQDN