Wireless Joint

An update: I had to go out of town, so I wrote a sh script in pfSense router to ping LAN IPs of several devices that should be online. If no response, reboot. If OK, then ping internet servers. If no reponse, cycle the WAN gateway on/off. The evening before I was leaving, the network went down, the ...

As you suggested around Feb 28, I manually configured the IPPT that day. And, later, I did try changing the monitoring IP to ping the IG ip address. Just for clarity, I changed that IP from 192.168.225.1 to 192.168.5.1. I don't know if it matters, but when I set-up a static route or VIP, I am able ...

So unfortunately the issue came back. Over at the netgate forums:
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/186210/router-locking-up-maybe-due-to-excessive-lan-traffic/51

Ah yes DS-Lite. I see that so infrequently I always forget about it. So 192.0.0.2 is a legitimate IP address in that case.

I agree the ...

OK. I haven't had any issues since disabling monitoring on the IG gateway but not ready to declare success just yet. Over on the netgate forums, they are thinking it may be a sporadic hardware failure in my router. Yesterday I left it running memtest for several hours, no errors. If it fails again ...

IG gateway has been using 8.8.8.8 as monitoring IP. I have tried other DNS (like, 1.1.1.1 & 9.9.9.9) & disabled montoring also, but I honestly can't remember if that was before or after making the other changes you suggested. I just disabled monitoring & we'll see what happens.... crossing fingers.

Thanks. I'm not quite following your post though. I think you're saying that I need to priortize the routes to each WAN. There are 2 WANs, my primary which is provided by a wireless ISP & the secondary which uses the IG with Google FI (TMobile MVNO). The primary ISP doesn't have a modem, its a ...

Another clarification question regarding the IPPT function: Does the IG actually have a MAC, or is more like its relaying the pfSense interface MAC to the carrier (so the IG is more or less transparent)?

The reason I ask, is that prior to my previous question about this I did just copy the IPPT ...

Sure. I'm going to give it a few days, at least through the weekend. Previously I've thought I'd solved it only to have the issue start back up a few days later. This time though, I'm a lot more optimistic.

Just letting you know that so far my network has been stable. Thank you for the help!

Thank you for the detailed post.

For clarity, "The first I would suggest would be to set the IPPT MAC address of the PFSense WAN port manually" I assume means copy the IPPT MAC from the IG ui, then paste it into the "MAC Address" setting of the pfSense WAN interface configuration? (The subtext of ...

I've been having ongoing issues with my network, which seems to be related to the invisagig or the cell network. If you scroll to the last few posts in the following forum thread it appears that the modem is handing out DHCP leases when the modem loses it signal causing my LAN devices to lose ...

Hum... do you know of any 5G modems that connect to the router using CAT?

I'm looking for an external modem that supports 5G, primarily for use as a backup to our very unreliable and slow WISP. I was using, until it failed, a Netgear LTE LB1120, with Ting. If 5G proves suitable, I may switch to T-Mobile or Calyx for primary service and drop our WISP entirely.

I'm ...