Netgear 4G/LTE Modem - How to get it recognised at OPNsense Boot

[sancra01]

Apologies for the delay getting back to you. OPNsense and the USB modem have been working quite well up until about a week ago and then I noticed that the USB modem is detaching and reattaching 6 seconds later once a day at random times (but usually in the early hours of the morning) so resolving this has jumped the priority list :)

I've added the line as suggested to my /usr/local/etc/devd/ifnet.conf as per below ...

notify 101 {
   match "system"      "IFNET";
   match "subsystem"   "!usbus[0-9]+";
   match "type"      "ATTACH";
   action "ifconfig $subsystem up";
};

... and I've had some success.

When I detach the USB modem and attach it again I've noticed that the status of the WAN interface is UP (previously DOWN after detach/attach) but it doesn't have a DHCP address from the modem. So I went to "Interfaces | Overview" and selected the dropdown for my WAN interface and then hit the button to renew the DHCP and the WAN interface started working again.

So I'm nearly there. I guess I need to add another line perhaps to renew the DHCP after the WAN interface comes up? I just have no idea what I need to add though.

Can you provide another gentle push in the right direction?

Many thanks

Craig

[sancra01]

I'm still having a bit of trouble trying to figure this out.

I'm guessing that I need to add another "action" in the ifnet.conf that will renew the IP address just after the WAN interface comes up. I've opened up a shell in OPNsense to try out a couple of commands to renew the IP address that the USB modem assigns but I'm not even sure of the command to renew.

I've read that ...

dhclient -r

... should renew it but when I run that it says there is no "r" option.

So how do you renew an ip address in OPNsense/FreeBSD? If I can work that out then adding that command line to the ifnet.conf might resolve my issue.

Grateful for any information anyone can provide.

Cheers

Craig

[sancra01]

Tried something else. Added line in red below to ifnet.conf which I found in the logs after I renewed the IP address using the OPNsense GUI ...

notify 101 {
   match "system"      "IFNET";
   match "subsystem"   "!usbus[0-9]+";
   match "type"      "ATTACH";
   action "ifconfig $subsystem up";
   action "/usr/local/etc/rc.newwanip ue0";
};

Disconnected/reconnected the modem, WAN interface came up but it didn't acquire an IP. Would I need to introduce a delay or something after bringing up the WAN interface and if so how would I do that?

[sancra01]

Anyone got any ideas that I could try?