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16.7 Legacy Series / Back to PfSense :(
« on: December 30, 2016, 07:58:23 pm »
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!
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!