Hi All,
I have been using OPNSense for ages in a pretty basic manner with just two interfaces being assigned (WAN & LAN) and a handful of services to up the security (Unbound, IPS, GeoBlocking, and some ACLs), with everything working great. However, recently I added a few security cameras to my house and for security wanted to place this on a new physical interface of my OPNSense device rather than it being a VLAN (My device has 4 ports so it seemed better to just create a new interface rather than mess around with VLANs).
The new interface and network has been assigned and it is a direct replica of my LAN, just with a different subnet. I configured some basic rules such as the below:
NAT is default with nothing special in it.
This is where it gets a bit weird, everything works as expected for around 12 to 24 hours but then everything on the Camera network becomes unavailable with no apparent reason (to me anyway). I have changed the down stream switch (just for the Camera Network), all ethernet cables, and also tried the 4th port on my OPNSense device, however, the issue persists.
I have also looked at IPS, local DHCP, Firewall rules, and Unbound but havent found any logs which may indicate something is incorrect, as on boot everything works correctly. Restarting the network devices brings everything backup without an issue.
At this stage i have exhausted what i can think of, does anyone else have an idea of what it could be?
I have been using OPNSense for ages in a pretty basic manner with just two interfaces being assigned (WAN & LAN) and a handful of services to up the security (Unbound, IPS, GeoBlocking, and some ACLs), with everything working great. However, recently I added a few security cameras to my house and for security wanted to place this on a new physical interface of my OPNSense device rather than it being a VLAN (My device has 4 ports so it seemed better to just create a new interface rather than mess around with VLANs).
The new interface and network has been assigned and it is a direct replica of my LAN, just with a different subnet. I configured some basic rules such as the below:
- No WAN traffic on camera network
- Camera network to camera network allow all (For the NVR + NAS)
- Camera network to LAN allow all (So the cameras and NVR are accessible by other devices)
- LAN to Camera network allow all (as per above)
NAT is default with nothing special in it.
This is where it gets a bit weird, everything works as expected for around 12 to 24 hours but then everything on the Camera network becomes unavailable with no apparent reason (to me anyway). I have changed the down stream switch (just for the Camera Network), all ethernet cables, and also tried the 4th port on my OPNSense device, however, the issue persists.
I have also looked at IPS, local DHCP, Firewall rules, and Unbound but havent found any logs which may indicate something is incorrect, as on boot everything works correctly. Restarting the network devices brings everything backup without an issue.
At this stage i have exhausted what i can think of, does anyone else have an idea of what it could be?
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