so, I have multiple lines from the same ISP for WAN. and they all use pppoe and get assigned a random IP and gateway and most of the time there are two or more lines sharing the same upstream gateway address .(interfaces themselves have different addresses but same IPV4 Gateway)
I have setup MultiWAN according to the wiki but I was having some random timeout issues.
after looking around it seemed that multiwan with same gateway ip is not possible HOWEVER I have also found (on pfsense wiki) that pppoe is an exception to that rule.
so Is this an opnsense only issue?
or Im just doing something wrong.
You need to set up GW monitoring (dpinger) to use something else than the GW address. They don't provide MLPPP instead of this madness?
Gateway monitoring uses different public dns IPs for their monitoring address.
However if I have all the pppoe wans up and lets say 2 share the same upstream gateway IP, if I were to put this gateway group as my LAN's gateway in firewall rules I would get intermittent internet on lan clients (websites load now and you a second later you cant load any websites (or ping anywhere) for few seconds and this cycle repeats), until I disable gateways sharing same upstream IP and things will start working again.
and no, no MLPPP here.
- You need a separate IP for monitoring for each and every WAN which (randomly) shares the same GW.
- Public DNS servers may be rate-limiting pings -- because they are not ping servers.
Other than that, good luck.
Quote from: doktornotor on November 16, 2023, 07:08:12 PM
- You need a separate IP for monitoring for each and every WAN which (randomly) shares the same GW.
- Public DNS servers may be rate-limiting pings -- because they are not ping servers.
Other than that, good luck.
I have a different IP on each separate WAN already.
and I never had issues with using public dns severs for gateway monitoring.
Hey I hava a same setup as you, I'm trying to migrate from pfsense to opnsense, but stuck at the same problem, did you find a way to solve this issue ? or is it that opnsense doesn't support this kind of config ? Thanks