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I should add, I'd like something small enough to fit on this little shelf. Pretty sure the VP6630 or Topton box above will fit here (although I'll probably have to move the turtle  :()

I just got 5Gbps fiber installed and I'm searching for new hardware capable of handling it.

I'm currently running a Protectli FW4C and I love it, so my first inclination is to stick with Protectli... except the only 10GbE capable boxes they offer are their big 6-Port VP6600 Series. I'll go that route if I have to, but those seem overly big and expensive for my needs (I don't need 6 ports, I'm only gonna use 2-3). Then again I absolutely love the little speaker in my FW4C that lets me know when the system is shutting down or booted up; so I'm seriously considering dropping $700+ on a Protectli VP6630 because of that and the fact that I trust their build quality.

The only other option I've found is this Topton N305 MiniPC on AliExpress, but apparently the NIC in it is ancient and the build quality is suspect.

What do you guys recommend? What would you use to run OPNsense on 5Gb fiber?

I won't pretend to understand how or why, but apparently this issue was somehow being caused by my Comcast rental modem. Why did rebooting OPNsense temporarily fix it? No idea, but that red herring cost me a shitload of wasted time.

I replaced the Comcast modem with a new MB8611 modem, and sure enough this goddamn API issue went away! Unfortunately the new modem also brought my upload speeds down from 100Mbps to about 2Mbps. 🤦‍♂️    I just can't win. Temporarily back on the Comcast modem since I'd rather have the API issue on some devices than garbage upload speed on everything. I'm just happy to finally know where the issue is coming from, even if I can't comprehend how a bridged modem could be causing a problem like this. Gonna return the MB8611 and get an Arris S33, hopefully that will do better with upload speed.

Well after a dozen hours of troubleshooting I'm throwing in the towel. If you manage to figure anything out please post what you find here, I'll keep checking back.

If nobody figures out what's going on here I guess I'll just switch back to pfsense. I don't know what else to try and I'm getting almost 0 help from the community.

I have AdGuardHome as a plugin and all my DNS routes to that through Unbound. Disabling the AdGuard service doesn't seem to change anything so I ruled that out as a cause. At first I thought this was a DNS issue too but now I'm not so sure.

Does everything work ok for you in the few minutes following an OPNSense reboot? That's one of the distinguishing features of this issue for me, and I feel like it's a big hint as to the cause.

Also I've noticed its only a problem through the official apps. If I open the CoinGecko app it spins and spins then times out, but if I open a browser on that same device and go to coingecko.com it loads instantly. Is your experience the same?

Found something in my firewall log that might shed some light on this. It's blocking some connections to my phone, including LAN connections between my server and phone. I'm only using the default block rules on the WAN interface. Can somebody please explain what's going on here?

When I click the rid hyperlink I just get a blank page, and I don't see how to lookup by rulenr. How can I figure out which rule is doing this!!???

See attached pics. My phone is 192.168.1.150, and I have no special LAN block rules. Why the hell are connections to my phone being blocked!


[EDIT] Apparently the logs could be red herrings, and it may just be a dropped connection or something and not necessarily opnsense actively blocking a connection. The fact that everything works fine for a few minutes following a reboot leads me to believe this isn't being caused by a rule (presumably those take effect instantly). Its like something is crashing after 5 minutes and certain types of traffic doesn't get routed anymore (specifically, API connections apparently)

This seems similar to the issue I'm having:
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=33559.0

Although most of mine aren't just slow, but time out entirely. All work fine on cellular.

Many of my Android apps and HomeAssistant integrations have no connection since the last update. The only reason I know it has something to do with OPNsense is because for about 5 minutes after a reboot the issue goes away entirely everything works fine.

I have no connection in many Android apps, and every HomeAssistant integration that relies on the cloud has issues connecting. When I reboot OPNsense all of the above works for about 5 minutes, but then the issue inevitably returns.

So far I've had no issues from my main PC. The issue only seems to effect certain apps on my phone, and HomeAssistant on my server.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm at my wits end trying to troubleshoot this. Attached my DNS config since that's my best guess on where this issue is stemming from.