What kind of switch are you using? and are you routing between the
Astaro and pfsense or double natting?

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On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Nicolas Roussi
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am using an Astaro Firewall for my perimeter firewall/router. Under that 
> subnet I have built a pfSense machine just to handle my wireless clients 
> which can reach up to 600 at any given moment. There are points in time where 
> the wireless clients cannot access anything on the internet for a couple of 
> minutes but other than that everything is working perfectly. The current 
> setup is:
>
> internet<---->astaro (192.168.2.0/24)<----switch--->main LAN
>                                                                            |
>                                                                            |
>                                                                            |
>                                                                       pfSense
>                                                                            |
>                                                                            |
>                                                                
> 192.168.180.0/22
>
> During the disconnects I still have access to the admin gui of pfSense from a 
> wireless client but nowhere else. The only entry in the system logs is some 
> ARP messages that state that some MAC address changed IP to some other value. 
> I was thinking that the problem might be the switch but I would like to build 
> a pfSense box with 3 NICs (or more), one for my main lan, one for the 
> wireless, and possibly one for all my VoIP extensions. Do you think that that 
> will eliminate my disconnection issues or could it be something else like the 
> MTU size of my current pfSense machine. This way I can eliminate Astaro even 
> though it is a great UTM but it's not free and have pfSense manage the whole 
> network. Running 1.2.3 with a default MTU size of 1500 but after installing 
> NMap I can see that there are packets up to 1518 in size.
>
> Thanks
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