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AK_Astro
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dpinger Needs Frequent Manual Restarts - Multi-WAN
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March 02, 2023, 06:59:56 pm »
Hello, running latest OPNsense 23.1.1_2-amd64 on a dedicated mini-PC router with two WAN gateways configured for failover Tier 1 and 2 according to the documentation.
I've been having this issue for several weeks that dpinger needs to be frequently restarted from the dashboard manually or it won't detect that the Tier 1 network is back up. Sometimes dpinger appears green and sometimes it's fully stopped and red. My Tier 1 is starlink which is rather spotty (frequent 1-10s interruptions here in Alaska).
Is there anywhere I can tune dpinger to be more aggressive in rechecking for good gateway?
An easy band aid fix would be a cron job that resets dpinger every 5 min or so but that's not ideal and not an option under the cron menu.
Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if I need more info to be able to be helped.
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AK_Astro
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Re: dpinger Needs Frequent Manual Restarts - Multi-WAN
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March 06, 2023, 03:27:17 am »
Any possible ideas why dpinger appears to get stuck "offline"? I just had a 45 min outage on my Tier 1 and had to manually restart it (totally off and red) and it immediately recognized as online. Very frustrating.
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Kaeltis
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March 06, 2023, 05:48:52 pm »
This has happened to me as well when I still had fail over set up.
Since my main connection only failed rarely, I "solved" the issue by rebooting the firewall every night, but yeah, very annoying and would love to see a solution.
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axsdenied
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Re: dpinger Needs Frequent Manual Restarts - Multi-WAN
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March 06, 2023, 05:57:36 pm »
It sounds like you're experiencing the same issue I have described here:
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=32490.msg157169#msg157169
I brought this up awhile ago and there have been no responses from the community or devs unfortunately. Would love to identify the root cause as either a bug, configuration issue or maybe my stupidity. Whichever confirmation would help
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AK_Astro
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Re: dpinger Needs Frequent Manual Restarts - Multi-WAN
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March 06, 2023, 09:00:52 pm »
Hmm that looks like a similar situation but I don't need to reboot the whole router, just the dpinger service. If I had the skillset to write a script to restart it on a certain time frequency that would be a workable bandaid for myself. Or even knowing how to add it to the list of cron jobs.
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Greelan
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Re: dpinger Needs Frequent Manual Restarts - Multi-WAN
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March 06, 2023, 09:11:41 pm »
This may help you:
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=18745.msg97953#msg97953
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AK_Astro
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Re: dpinger Needs Frequent Manual Restarts - Multi-WAN
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March 07, 2023, 05:42:49 am »
Quote from: Greelan on March 06, 2023, 09:11:41 pm
This may help you:
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=18745.msg97953#msg97953
Thanks, I'll take a look.
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lzamel
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March 07, 2023, 09:15:36 am »
I was observing similar (if not exactly the same) behavior. It all stopped after I correctly set System: Settings: General: DNS servers
By correct I mean each GW is listed and uses same DNS server as one used to monitor status.
I didn't debug why this helped on my setup, but I haven't seen dpinger stuck since.
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AK_Astro
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March 07, 2023, 10:07:19 pm »
Interesting, they have been the same (different monitor source for each gateway, but matched in both settings pages) already.
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