[pfSense] Gateway Status Remains Offline

[Andy]

Hello,

I recently built a firewall/router appliance using an ALIX2d13 board, a TP-Link TL-WN861N wireless mini pci adapter, a SanDisk 4GB Extreme compact flash card, and the pfSense 2.1.2-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd image.

Initially, everything went fairly well. I was able to connect via the serial port, ethernet, and wifi. I was able to access the internet as expected. However, after about 10 minutes the gateway went offline and I lost access to the internet. The WAN is always up and has an IP. If I unplug/plugin the cable modem, sometimes the gateway comes back online, but only briefly. If I replace the appliance with my other pfSense box, things immediately work as expected, so I assume it's not the cable modem.

How should I begin to troubleshoot this issue?

Thanks

[compdoc]

Post by Andy
However, after about 10 minutes the gateway went offline and I lost access to the internet.

I recently had much the same thing happen, but with a wired dual-port network card. It turned out to the nic.

[Andy]

The gateway is now online after upgrading the cable modem. This issue appears to be resolved.

Thanks

---- On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:42:02 -0500 Andy <***@zoho.com> wrote ----



Hello,

I recently built a firewall/router appliance using an ALIX2d13 board, a TP-Link TL-WN861N wireless mini pci adapter, a SanDisk 4GB Extreme compact flash card, and the pfSense 2.1.2-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd image.

Initially, everything went fairly well. I was able to connect via the serial port, ethernet, and wifi. I was able to access the internet as expected. However, after about 10 minutes the gateway went offline and I lost access to the internet. The WAN is always up and has an IP. If I unplug/plugin the cable modem, sometimes the gateway comes back online, but only briefly. If I replace the appliance with my other pfSense box, things immediately work as expected, so I assume it's not the cable modem.

How should I begin to troubleshoot this issue?

Thanks

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[NABEEL HASAN]

Try to disable gateway monitor for while. After some time put some other IP, like some out side your home IP. Let say put open DNS server like 8.8.8.8.

Regards,

Nabeel

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 10:42:02 -0500
From: ***@zoho.com
To: ***@lists.pfsense.org
Subject: [pfSense] Gateway Status Remains Offline


Hello,

I recently built a firewall/router appliance using an ALIX2d13 board, a TP-Link TL-WN861N wireless mini pci adapter, a SanDisk 4GB Extreme compact flash card, and the pfSense 2.1.2-RELEASE-2g-i386-nanobsd image.

Initially, everything went fairly well. I was able to connect via the serial port, ethernet, and wifi. I was able to access the internet as expected. However, after about 10 minutes the gateway went offline and I lost access to the internet. The WAN is always up and has an IP. If I unplug/plugin the cable modem, sometimes the gateway comes back online, but only briefly. If I replace the appliance with my other pfSense box, things immediately work as expected, so I assume it's not the cable modem.

How should I begin to troubleshoot this issue?

Thanks