I had hooked a machine to the internet and proved that the problem
didn't exist...
My cables are known good. I put another NIC in the box (again, the
intel ones PF likes) and assigned that as WAN. I assigned the NIC on
the mobo as opt 2 (not currently in use).
Using the 3rd intel NIC as WAN appears to clear up the problem. Don't
know why, but at least everything works now.
On Apr 22, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Rob Terhaar wrote:
On 4/21/07, Jeremy Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been using PFsense successfully for a number of months now. In
the past week, my connection to the internet has seemed 'herky-
jerky', i.e. sometimes I can get mail, IM and www working, other
times it seems to hang for a minute or two. I confirmed this by using
the test at www.speedtest.net. I'm able to reliably connect, but the
connection speed jumps all over the place. I contacted our ISP for
support, and they confirmed proper function of the modem (which I
confirmed by cabling a laptop straight into the modem and testing).
I've configured my PF box with WAN, LAN, and LAN 2. LAN is a wired
network with my machines on it, and LAN2 has 2 wireless bridges
connected to it. I have it set to assign my laptop a specific IP so
I'm able to connect from the wireless on LAN2 to the wired LAN
network. Other than that there is no cross subnet traffic.
The PF box is an Asus mobo with a 2.6 ghz celeron, 512 mb of ram and
a 40gb HD. WAN is using the built-in NIC on the mobo and LAN and LAN2
are both intel network cards.
I've reinstalled PF on a new hard drive to rule out hardware (backing
up and restoring settings from drive to drive), worked with the ISP,
everything on the local network seems fine (I can connect reliable
from machine to machine), but how do I begin to troubleshoot this?
hook a computer directly to the internet, bypass the pfsense box and
see if the problem still exists. If it doesn't then try pfsense on a
different computer, with different nics, and different ethernet
cables.
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