I am double natting and the switch is a zonet gigabit 16-port regular layer 2. 

thanks
On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:35 AM, stephen at stephenjc wrote:

> What kind of switch are you using? and are you routing between the
> Astaro and pfsense or double natting?
> 
> Thanks,
> Stephen C
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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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