Issue with WAN Interface dropping internet every 24 hours

[mikey00]

Made it 4 days lost internet today at 10:50am release renew did not work same as always reboot resolves this is 4 days on the new ip after spoofing mac. We will see what happens at the 2 week mark
Thanks for the support guys troubleshootingnis a pain but version keeps saying it’s my end

[mikey00]

just providing an update to this issue. its stilll ongoing some times i last a few weeks months even other times its minutes to hours before i lose internet again. I dont think its opnsense but more less the ISP not allowing the mac address or the mac address i am spoofing to comes back online and kicks me off lol.

I use a mac generator to create fake Mac Addresses to change my ip anytime i choose to (kinda like using a proxy or VPN annoymously but its still a local area ip). this used to work perfectly fine with a Sonicwall setup but using opnsense or pfsense Verizon does not work well with for whatever reason. I dont even get over 300mb for speed when i pay for 1g and with Sonicwall or even a Nighthawk router i was getting at least 750mb so i am not impressed at all with opnsense work with Verizon as an isp. I would like to hear from other users with their experiences with different ISP.

[sorano]

Gotta love "network admins" that cannot even troubleshoot their home networks properly and then blame the software without any additional data to back it up.

My first thought: If you suspect that your mac spoofing is an issue why not temporarily disable it to see if the problem goes away? Maybe your ISP limits the amount of DHCP leases and if you keep changing MAC you reach the limit and no further DHCP leases will be offered?
Another possibility could be that your virtualized environment has troubles with the spoofed mac and the virtual Interface. (And also a MAC generator? Really? Is it that hard to come up with random MAC's on your own?)

Sniffing on WAN should help you see if you receive DHCP offers and acks.

Regarding performance probably not enough raw power to route your packets? Overbooked host? Other VM's eating up your CPU cycles?
I'm pushing 500Mbit on a virtualized host with an 8th gen i5 2.10GHz base frequency.

[mikey00]

I ran a SonicWall before with no issues at all. the only reason why i switched is because the Sonic wall couldn't handle 1gb speeds and had only a 500mb through put.

I only said it was weird that it started happening when i switched firewalls. I have even swapped back to my old one and it works fine as it should, with obvious speed and latency issues but no network drop.

instead of bashing people have a little common decency to actually help the community instead of trying to insult people who you think you know more than.

My Virtual Server is a commercial Grade blade server (Dell) that came from a business running 40+ VMs from it pretty sure it has enough capabilities with 128G Ram as well.  I also have 1 Network Card with 2 Interfaces ( 1 WAN, 1 LAN -which goes to a Layer 3 Switch that feeds 4 different VLANS).  I have thought about adding another card for DMZ handling but i can do all of that routing from my Layer 3 switch.

[mikey00]

also disabling the Mac address doesn't work either. I did notice however since my last update i made a change to the virtual Mac address through the Hardware settings for the VM itself rather than changing the Mac address in OPNsense, i cant say whether or not that fixed the issue as i have the cron job still running. I can try to turn it off and see if the issue is still happening or not, maybe the mac address spoofing from OPNsense is not recommended way when running from a VM im not sure, i don't have alot of knowledge of OpnSense thats why i came here asking for pointers but instead get treated like i am noob to networking lol its so funny its pathetic.