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Only thing that amazes me, how come I'm the only one who hits this ??

Your not, had the exact same issues, although amplified with MLPPP (multiple PPPoE connections).  I unfortunately had to go back to pfsense, but eagerly waiting for someone to really look at the whole PPPoE issues so I can change back.

Was really loving the OPNsense GUI, reports, and how a number of things are really streamlined (Like traffic shaping).   It's easier to do easy things in OPNsense.

Unfortunately, like a number of people have experienced (as I've read through the forum and other sites), the PPPoE and MLPPP stack is just atrocious at this time.   I have 3 DSL modems terminated at the firewall running MLPPP.   The hardware is great (Quad-core, Intel NICs, etc.) Here are some of the things I've gone through;

1) MTU/MRRU etc. settings in Advanced screen will not stick, and get blanked out on basically any change whatsoever.
2) PPPoE/MLPPP connection will NOT reset upon any change, or modem drop etc.   Leaving me to manually force the connection to come up, or sometimes having to re-save the WAN settings and then reboot.
3) Even upon reboot, the MLPPP connection will only come up 50% of the time with me trying various save, reconnect etc. until it does.  Total reboot to reconnect time has been as high as 10-15 minutes!
4) REALLY long reboot -> connection established vs. pfsense (timed: 202 seconds MINIMUM! vs 32 seconds)
5) Have received occasional kernel panic on reboot a few times after changing MLPPP settings and re-booted.  Been re-installed twice from scratch, same issues.   One ONE occasion the kernel panic trashed the system, and had to re-install from scratch.

And no, pfsense doesn't demonstrate any of these symptoms on the same HW and configs.

I live in a Rural area, and unfortunately my DSL isn't 100% stable (more like 95%) which occasionally requires a modem to re-sync, or once every month or so I need to power cycle a modem.   Anytime this happens I'm down for minutes, if not longer.   Pfsense usually takes seconds to realize a change to the environment and does a re-sync and authentication automatically, never a re-boot required.  Only possibly a quick re-connect if I'm adding a new modem back into the group.   My wife and I both work at home, so you can imagine the frustration.

This is NOT to be a bitch at OPNsense, I was (am?) really looking forward to this product becoming all it can be, at which time I look forward to being a paying customer.  But the whole MLPPP/PPPoE stack needs a hand grenade currently.  I really hope to see these things fixed soon.   Wish I could help more, but unfortunately need to flip back to pfsense and get back to work.

Cheers!

Yes, that looks the case.

Thanks!

Hi everyone.    The FW hardware I'm running has onboard Intel I211 NICs.   Been googling to try to find out if they support the offloading we can enable (CRC, TSO, LRO, VLAN).  Any source where we can find compatibility with OPNSense and various NICs?

Thanks

Hi there,  I can re-produce this issue every time, and wondered if anyone else has come across it.   Don't see the error on Git.

I have 3 modems with MLPPP.   Two things happen;
1) When I reboot my firewall, the MLPPP connection WON'T come back up unless I reset the Point-To-Point interface somehow.  Even a re-save (with no changes) will finally force a reconnect.    Huge issue obviously if manual intervention is needed anytime the FW reboots.

2) Almost the same issue as above - If I change the config to 2 modems (which unfortunately I need to do on occasion for a few reasons), the FW won't even attempt a re-connect or re-authorization.  So, I have to SAVE the config again to force a reconnect.

2a) When I do the above (go from 3 modems down to 2), the VAST majority of the time it won't re-establish the MLPPP connection and I literally have to reboot the FW and do Step #1 to go from 3 to 2 modems.

I came from pfsense to OPNSense, and never had any of these issues with pfsense.   
Anyone else?
Thanks

Thanks to you both.  I'm loving OPNSense so far!  Been on pfsense for about a year, and just a week now with OPNSense, but I think I'm here to stay :)

I am running across a number of GUI bugs, and have tested them across 3 browsers so I'll submit those right away.

Cheers!
J

Hi everyone, just switched over from pfsense and liking it so far!  I have run across a few issues, mostly minor.  Where can you submit detailed bug information and/or suggestions or requests?

Cheers
J