Hi All,
not the usual performance one this time,
Been running Pfsense (Community edition, 2.6.0) with a UK 1Gbps/100Mbps Fttp line, this then uses PPPoE for its upstream connection. Been in place for just under 18 months, 1st 12 months were fine, no problems. At some point in the last 3 months a fault has developed where randomly the PPPoE connection is shown as up but no IPv4 traffic seems to pass through it.
I've configured IPv6 (ISP provides a static public delegation) & that *seems* to continue working.
Ping to anything external fails, tracert likewise only shows the local gateway & then times out.
Dropping & re-establishing the PPPoE connection seems to fix the problem for a while.
having talked to the ISP they are apparently not aware of any problems within their network but have said that they've seen a few similar problems with...