What kind of switch are you using? and are you routing between the Astaro and pfsense or double natting?
Thanks, Stephen C -All of my email addresses go to the same place -Save Paper, think before you print 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
