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I agree,
it is a bit of a pain setting the date when all i need it to do is work on all weekdays.
It can also get tricky when setting up a time that goes over multiple days say 20:00 to 6:00 the next day.
https://snag.gy/q79ald.jpg

Hmm, days of the week already works as a recurring schedule. I don't think we need to do anything. Click on the Day link on the calendar. :)


Cheers,
Franco

Hi Bart,
After I went "back to basics" it has been working fine! :)
Where do you think I should go from here?

Thanks
Henry..
https://snag.gy/ClJqVP.jpg

Hi Bart,
Things were going well after I put the new card in and then it happened again  :(
I've attached a screenshot but the WAN link just goes down. It works fine if I re-load the WAN interface.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

https://snag.gy/VjhB6P.jpg

Henry P

Hi Henry,

There has traditionally been a dark cloud over Realtek drivers in FreeBSD. Any chance you could swap the interfaces to see if that keeps the WAN side up longer?

As well as trying that, you can pare OPNsense down to its bare minimum; firewall with IPv4 outbound NAT and port forward for the inbound traffic you absolutely need. No Suricata, DNS, Netflow, etc.

Run in this smallest possible footprint and see if that stops the dropouts. If it does, you have a baseline you can compare to when you start adding stuff back in.

Bart...

Hi Everyone,
Is it possible to add a recurring schedule into the firewall?
I can only see howto set a schedule for a specific date.
I would like to create a schedule that will allow me to block the internet late at night until early in the morning on weekdays.

Thanks !
https://snag.gy/B174Qp.jpg

Ok thanks Bart. I've just ordered another Intel NIC - shoudn't have used Realtec in the first place!
After I've put the new NIC in i'll re-install OPNsense and go from there.

I'll let you know how it goes  :)

Henry P..

[Some other hardware details:]

Hi Bart,
I'm unsure of the exact chipset that i'm using for the WAN but I do know its a Realtec one.
I use a Intel Gigabit PRO 1000CT with the 82574L Chipset for my LAN.
I have a Cat6 ethernet cable going from the HG612 to the OPNsense box (bit of an overkill  ;) ) but its the same one that I've  used with my HomeHub router and its working fine  :).

Some other hardware details:
Intel Core i3 4th Generation
4GB RAM
128GB SSD

Thanks Again !

Thanks Bart,
The logs are pretty much just this:

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Aug 31 20:14:26 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] Link: DOWN event
Aug 31 20:14:26 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] LCP: Down event
Aug 31 20:14:26 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 419 i                                                                                                             n 2 seconds
Aug 31 20:14:28 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 419
Aug 31 20:14:28 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] PPPoE: Connecting to ''
Aug 31 20:14:37 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] PPPoE connection timeout after 9                                                                                                              seconds
Aug 31 20:14:37 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] Link: DOWN event
Aug 31 20:14:37 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] LCP: Down event
Aug 31 20:14:37 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 420 i                                                                                                             n 4 seconds
Aug 31 20:14:41 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 420
Aug 31 20:14:41 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] PPPoE: Connecting to ''
Aug 31 20:14:51 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] PPPoE connection timeout after 9                                                                                                              seconds
Aug 31 20:14:51 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] Link: DOWN event
Aug 31 20:14:51 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] LCP: Down event
Aug 31 20:14:51 Sycamores-RT01 ppp: [wan_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 421 i 


I don't know if this helps at all, I probably don't have something setup correctly but i'm not sure what..

Henry

Thanks Bart,
Yes the WAN connection shows red when the internet stops working.
Can I check the logs even after the system has restarted? I've had to swap to another router to use the internet.

Thanks again  :)

Hi Guys,
Wondering if I could have some help. I've just got OPNsense working and it was all going well but for some reason it will just drop the WAN connection, the internet works perfectly until it drops the connection.
I know the HG612 I'm using is good because I've used it with a BT HomeHub without any issues.

I'm hoping this is just a config issue! thanks for your help  :)