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Unfortunately still no luck getting through to the starlink dish :( Double checked all of the settings as above.

Hi,

I'm trying to get the routing to 192.168.100.1 (Starlink dish diagnostics page) to work on OPNSense. Initially I only found PFSense guides but I have since found this:



And followed the steps to find it still doesn't work. I'm not sure if it is complicated by having a failover setup, but even disabling the other interface doesn't get this to work.

The only step in the PF Sense Guide I couldn't find an OPNSense equivalent for was:

"enable the Disable DNS Forwarder checkbox ("Do not use the DNS Forwarder/DNS Resolver as a DNS server for the firewall"). This removes 127.0.0.1 from the DNS table, which seems to really bork dns lookups via Starlink. "

Any ideas what could be missing?

Had this issue twice now, first time it was kind of a relief after wrestling with trying to get it to work and seeing nothing wrong in the settings at all. 2nd time it's a bit more of an annoyance of do I really have to wait for an update to play the games I want correctly?!

I have 2 internet connections, one low ping gaming optimised wired and one starlink for bandwidth, downloads streaming etc. I have these set up as 2 group gateways - one with failover from wired, one failover from starlink. I'm using the ports that games use as a firewall rule to select the failover from wired group, with failover from starlink as the default rule.

The first game added worked fine after an update - weird but ok, great, I can play without turning off starlink all the time now. The second I copied all of the rules, groups, aliases etc and correct names/ports to the 2nd game and... nothing. Uses the default starlink connection, disable starlink, it works fine on the wired connection. Tried rebooting, flushing states tables. Still nothing, so I thought it's worth a try maybe there is an update available - there was, and it now works as intended.

So what gets reset during an update that doesn't while rebooting and flushing firewall states table that I need to do to poke it into action?

Also tried everything in the thread below now:

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=17869.15

Still no luck with getting anything to trigger UPnP :/

Hi everyone,

I have a dual WAN setup that I want to get UPnP or at least an open NAT working on.

Due to the use of 2 different PC's and no support in OPNSense for port triggering I believe UPnP is my only option?

I have set this up following various guides but they are invariably for single WAN understandably.

It is set up as following:

Allow UPnP Port Mapping
External interface - WAN
Interfaces - LAN
Default Deny
Entry 1 - allow 1024-65535 xx.xx.xx.xx/32 1024-65535
NAT outbound firewall rule xx.xx.xx.xx/32 source, any destination, static port

Where xx is the IP of gaming PC 1 (Gaming PC 2 is yet to arrive but would be added below this in the same way.)

Nothing ever shows up in UPnP rules, NAT in games is always strict so it appears to not be functioning at all - where have I gone wrong?
For testing purposes my firewall rules have been changed from OPT1-WAN failover with gaming traffic specific rules of the opposite (something else that doesn't work!) to WAN-OPT1 failover to ensure only one connection is used.

I had a similar issue on my old Asus router, lots of services don't like having connections from different IP's, website acted weird/slowly, services were slow or failed to connect - everything was fine on failover though.

There is a workaround for this, I remember something like a persistent connection setting - it may be worth searching for this in settings/google. I didn't look into it further as load balancing isn't ideal for my setup.m

It looks like this might be a rare Draytek Vigor 130 failure. I tried changing interfaces, anything I could find related to PPPoE re-connect loops on the net and nothing worked. I tried resetting the Vigor 130 and it wouldn't pick up a VDSL connection again, it was looking for ADSL on the auto setting and forcing VDSL lead to constant training status. So I dug out an old Openreach modem I wasn't even sure would work, and PPPoE connected straight away.

Just tried running the command from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/gpm7tz/pppoe_weird_issue/

As it sounded like a very similar issue, but the same loop persists.

Oh I also tried swapping the ethernet port as it's a dual NIC card, same problem but the message in pppoe changes to connecting to '1' so it seems that is related to the interface numbering and 0 is ' '

Thanks for the pointer, not sure how I missed that!



Not sure if someone else can make something of one of the details but it seems like it just can't see a link to try the PPPoE connection? The one thing that stood out to me was connecting to '' like something is misconfigured/missing a name somewhere.

I've checked with the ISP and they said settings all look ok but they've not seen any radius attempts from their side.

I also don't see anything PPPoE related in any logs (although happy with some directions to check the right ones/what to look for!) So it seems like it's not even attempting to make that connection for some reason

It just works is generally what I've found from most sources, unfortunately it doesn't!

I've tried readding and rebooting and all the other kinds of turn it off and on again with various different settings and unfortunately no luck.

Hi all,

I've been struggling with this for about a week now, have tried googling for all of the tutorials and guides I can find and still not having any luck with this! I've upgraded from an Asus router to OPNSense to get some more control over a dual WAN setup but having trouble configuring my PPPoE connection.

Im using a UK ISP (Ghost gaming broadband, a subsidiary of structured communications) which has a PPPoE WAN connection. This worked fine on my previous router after inputting username/password

My setup is a draytek vigor 130 into the OPNsense box and then out to a mikrotok switch. The modem is configured in bridge mode according to: https://draytek.co.uk/support/guides/kb-vigor-130-bridge and it successfully connects to the VDSL.

OPNSense is on a brand new defaults, LAN is working fine and I can get into the interface etc, all good. WAN is set in interface assignment as per:

PPPoE config:


This gives in the overview, an "up" status, with 0 uptime and no packets transferred, no Mac address and the incorrect 1500 MTU:

There's also only a wan_dhcp6 gateway that appears as online but again with no data.

I've tried various guides and changing settings with no luck and I can't see where I've gone wrong with this as most guides seem to move along the lines of set PPPoE and out the user and password in and it works!

Thanks in advance for any help, and please let me know if there's any more config screens that would be useful.